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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the white man systematically destroy for the Indians?
(a) Their schools.
(b) Their language.
(c) Their culture.
(d) Their art.

2. When death is unreal, how does this affect violence?
(a) Violence become natural.
(b) Violence becomes more real.
(c) Violence becomes easy.
(d) Violence becomes unreal too.

3. What did Senator Clinton Anderson announce in 1968?
(a) That the federal government needed to close the reservations.
(b) That the federal government should support only those Indians living in urban areas.
(c) That the federal government needed to spend more money on the Indian.
(d) That the federal government was spending nearly half a billion dollars a year on Indian people and therefore he did not think they were so neglected.

4. In 1964, what percentage of Indians thought the United States should get out of Vietnam?
(a) 85 percent.
(b) 10 percent.
(c) 15 percent.
(d) 80 percent.

5. What, according to the joke, is a peace treaty?
(a) "When a white man wants pieces of your soul."
(b) "When a white man wants a piece of your mind."
(c) "When a white man wants a piece of your land."
(d) "When a white man want a piece of you."

6. What did the new immigrants do to organize themselves in their new land?
(a) They asked the Indians for help.
(b) They borrowed from Indian culture and myth to build their basis of laws.
(c) They learned Indian art.
(d) They transplanted European social and political systems.

7. What were the record years for the Christian church on the reservations?
(a) 1850 to 1900.
(b) 1855 to 1863.
(c) 1863 to 1910.
(d) 1870 to 1930.

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

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

10. Once a church was assigned to a reservation, what happened to the other churches?
(a) Other churches could talk to members of the reservation to try to gain access.
(b) Other churches could invite Indians to worship on their reservation.
(c) They could also build a church on the same reservation.
(d) They were prohibited from entering a reservation.

11. What, according to the author, is welfare designed to do?
(a) Compensate people who complain the loudest.
(b) Compensate people who don't need it.
(c) Compensate people insofar as they deviate from the norm of society.
(d) Compensate people who are too poor to make much use of it.

12. What did Popovi Da say about the Indians being the first people in American?
(a) "We saw it first."
(b) "We love the reservation, what's not to love?"
(c) "We had reservations."
(d) "We knew a good thing when we saw it."

13. What, according to the author, will happen to America in the end?
(a) It will be returned to the American Indian.
(b) The National Parks will be given away.
(c) It will be overrun by other countries.
(d) The land will be owned by non-Americans.

14. What did Indians joke about when asked what the country was called before "America?"
(a) "Land of the Brave."
(b) "Indian."
(c) "Ours."
(d) "Freedom."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Minneapolis do in Tama, Iowa?

2. What basic principle of man's history, according to the author, did colonists violate?

3. Who was Clyde Warrior?

4. Who are the Five Civilized Tribes?

5. In 1964, what percentage of Indian thought the United States should get out of America?

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