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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) Give money and food to tourists.
(b) Help tourists gas their vehicles.
(c) Tell tourists about Indian fokelore.
(d) Watch the tourists who traveled Highway 16 on their way to the Black Hills.

2. What is the most popular and enduring subject of Indian humor?
(a) General Custer.
(b) Geronimo.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Sitting Bull.

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

4. What happened over time to young Indian men who wanted to enter the ministry?
(a) They became Methodist ministers.
(b) They became priests in the Catholic Church.
(c) They were sent away to school.
(d) They were rejected.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What was the main goal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when it was started?
(a) To drive the Indians to reservations.
(b) To dirve the Indians to Oklahoma.
(c) To prevent the extinction of the Indian.
(d) To make sure the Indian became extinct.

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

14. What happened during World War II on reservations?
(a) Indians were drafted and many reservations lost their leaders.
(b) Money increased under Roosevelt and the reservations were well funded.
(c) All progress stopped and funds were scarce.
(d) Women took over men's jobs, just like in the rest of the country.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Clyde Warrior support in the 1964 Presidential Campaign?

3. What did Martin Luther King organize in the spring of 1968?

4. Once a church was assigned to a reservation, what happened to the other churches?

5. How is the top job in the Bureau of Indian Affairs filled?

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