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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Indians looked at pictures of the Disciples, what were they surprised to find?
(a) Their brown faces.
(b) Their shoulder-length hair.
(c) Their white faces.
(d) Their short hair.

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

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

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

5. What did the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Minneapolis do in Tama, Iowa?
(a) They combined the school in Tama with one in Great Falls.
(b) They moved all the reservations in the area to the Tama, Iowa school.
(c) They built a school with no road to it.
(d) They abruptly closed the grade school.

6. What did Senator Clinton Anderson announce in 1968?
(a) 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.
(b) That the federal government should support only those Indians living in urban areas.
(c) That the federal government needed to close the reservations.
(d) That the federal government needed to spend more money on the Indian.

7. What basic principle of man's history, according to the author, did colonists violate?
(a) Never steal land from others, they will always get it back.
(b) Never make war with people you do not understand.
(c) Damns are harmful in the long run.
(d) Certain lands belong to certain peoples.

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

9. What was one good, tangible result of Indian participation in the Poor People's Campaign?
(a) The Indian people began to question the nature of their situation.
(b) The Indian people began to hoard wealth.
(c) The Indian people began to question their love of the land.
(d) The Indian people began to see others' point-of-view.

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

11. Under what presidential administration did the policy of Relocation begin?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Truman.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Roosevelt.

12. What did the office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Albuquerque, New Mexico do to the Tigua of El Paso?
(a) They never visited, but sent money.
(b) They called them twice a year.
(c) They visited twice a year.
(d) They simply forgot about the tribe.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the main goal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when it was started?

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

4. Under what umbrella did the Bureau of Indian Affairs begin?

5. What did the white man systematically destroy for the Indians?

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