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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?
(a) It ruled in favor of water rights for African Americans.
(b) It ruled in favor of urban development for Indians.
(c) It drained a dam and gave Indians back land on the east coast.
(d) Interpreted an ancient statute in favor of blacks in the matter of purchasing a house.

3. What was the result of Christian missions on the reservations?
(a) To shatter Indian society.
(b) To re-establish the Native American Church.
(c) To gather Indian ministers.
(d) To uplift Indian society.

4. What treaty did John F. Kennedy break?
(a) The Treaty of 1963.
(b) The Northwest Coast FishingTreaty.
(c) The Landfill Treaty.
(d) The Pickering Treaty.

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

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

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

8. What is the best service offered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs area offices?
(a) Keeping records.
(b) Helping with construction projects.
(c) Communication with Washington.
(d) Posting job openings.

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

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

11. What is the Aberdeen office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs known for?
(a) It is the most removed office from the Indians it serves.
(b) It is the largest office.
(c) It is the smallest office.
(d) It is the most religious of the area offices.

12. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?
(a) Because they were the most like white men.
(b) Because they had European contact.
(c) Because they were scouts for the French.
(d) Because they were civilized.

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

14. According to the author, where should the Bureau of Indian Affairs be transferred?
(a) To the Interior Department.
(b) To the Commerce Department.
(c) To the Foreign Service Department.
(d) To the War Department.

15. 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) They were prohibited from entering a reservation.
(c) They could also build a church on the same reservation.
(d) Other churches could invite Indians to worship on their reservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first concern of mission work on the reservation?

2. What is the joke about the Bureau of Indian Affairs area office in Portland?

3. What did the office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Albuquerque, New Mexico do to the Tigua of El Paso?

4. What did the Indians see on TV that turned them off to the Civil Rights Movement?

5. Who was Clyde Warrior?

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