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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Louie Sitting Crow do for fun?
(a) Tell tourists about Indian fokelore.
(b) Watch the tourists who traveled Highway 16 on their way to the Black Hills.
(c) Help tourists gas their vehicles.
(d) Give money and food to tourists.

2. During the 1950s, where were the Indian Health Services transferred to?
(a) The War Department.
(b) The Department of the Interior.
(c) The Department of Commerce.
(d) The Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

3. What, according to many Indians, is the culture of the white man?
(a) Violence with the Indians.
(b) Continual exploration.
(c) War with Indians.
(d) Continual exploitation.

4. Where did Billy Mills grow up?
(a) Topeka, Kansas.
(b) Enid, Oklahoma.
(c) Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
(d) Sioux City, South Dakota.

5. Why did the Indians support Urban Renewal?
(a) They thought they could get a piece of the action moneywise.
(b) They thought that African Americans could use the support.
(c) They joked that everyone else would move to the city and they could fence them off and run buffalo all over the country again.
(d) They thought it might help urban Indians.

6. Under what umbrella did the Bureau of Indian Affairs begin?
(a) The Interior Department.
(b) The Senate.
(c) The War Department.
(d) The Peace Department.

7. Who is the prophet of peace on the Hopi reservation?
(a) Geronimo.
(b) Thomas Banyaca.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) Papovi Da.

8. What favorite hymn surprised old warriors in church?
(a) By the River.
(b) Onward Christian Soldiers.
(c) My God is an Awesome God.
(d) Closer my God to Thee.

9. What has been the basis on which racial relations have been defined ever since the first settlers got off the boat?
(a) Water rights.
(b) Hunting rights.
(c) Money.
(d) Land.

10. What does the Native American Church use in its sacramental worship life?
(a) Prayer shawls.
(b) Dance.
(c) The peyote button.
(d) Communion.

11. What did Billy Mills do?
(a) He became the first Indian Senator.
(b) He won the ten thousand meter run at the Olympics.
(c) He became the first Indian astronaut.
(d) He was a pole vaulter at the Olympics.

12. What provides keen insight into a group's collective psyche?
(a) Comedy.
(b) Irony and Satire.
(c) Clowns.
(d) Sadness.

13. What is the reputation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Juneau?
(a) It has the best reputation for service to native peoples of any of the area offices.
(b) It holds fast to fishing rights.
(c) It is run by white men.
(d) It is representative of the people it serves.

14. What, spiritually, was Robert Kennedy?
(a) An Indian.
(b) An Irishman.
(c) An American.
(d) A white man.

15. What was the first concern of mission work on the reservation?
(a) Getting clothing for the Indians.
(b) Getting the Indians to come to church.
(c) Getting the Indians food.
(d) Land on which to build churches, homes, storehouses and other monuments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author believe the Indians should have a right to, just like water districts, cities, and towns?

2. What was the result of Christian missions on the reservations?

3. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?

4. What were the record years for the Christian church on the reservations?

5. When death is unreal, how does this affect violence?

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