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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?
(a) To pray.
(b) To be in church on Sundays.
(c) To share one's goods.
(d) To tend to the sick.

3. How many area offices does the Bureau of Indian Affairs have throughout the country?
(a) 51.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

4. What is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the area offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
(a) Lack of funds.
(b) Lack of manpower.
(c) Lack of computers.
(d) Lack of resources for buidling projects.

5. Who does the area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Aberdeen, South Dakota serve?
(a) The tribes of Kansas.
(b) The tribes of the Dakotas and Nebraska.
(c) The tribes of Minnesota and the Great Lakes.
(d) The tribes of Canada.

6. What kind of groups, according to the author, do people have little sympathy for?
(a) Polite groups.
(b) Funny groups.
(c) Rude groups.
(d) Stolid groups.

7. When the buffalo were gone, what did the Sioux eat to keep from starving?
(a) Deer.
(b) Skunks.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

8. Who did Clyde Warrior support in the 1964 Presidential Campaign?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Goldwater.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Nixon.

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

10. In 1964, what percentage of Indian thought the United States should get out of America?
(a) 15 percent.
(b) 10 percent.
(c) 90 percent.
(d) 85 percent.

11. How is the top job in the Bureau of Indian Affairs filled?
(a) The person is voted in by the Indians.
(b) The Senate picks the person.
(c) The House picks the person.
(d) By appointment.

12. What did Martin Luther King organize in the spring of 1968?
(a) The African American Coalition.
(b) The Muslim Speaker.
(c) The Indian Reorganization Act.
(d) The Poor People's Campaign.

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

14. What Department was the Bureau of Indian Affairs transferred to when it opened in 1849?
(a) The Department of Commerce.
(b) The Department of the Interior.
(c) The Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
(d) The War Department.

15. Who was Clyde Warrior?
(a) Perhaps the greatest wit in Indian country.
(b) A poet.
(c) An artist.
(d) A writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What provides keen insight into a group's collective psyche?

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

3. In 1966, what did the secret Presidential Task Force recommend doing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

4. What, according to the author, will happen to America in the end?

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

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