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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Billy Mills do?

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

3. When the buffalo were gone, what did the Sioux eat to keep from starving?

4. What is the highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?

5. According to the author, where should the Bureau of Indian Affairs be transferred?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did missionaries do to the Indian's religious life when they arrived on the reservations?

2. What does the author believe that every group must have to become a reality?

3. What have been the views, according to the author, of Christianity regarding slavery, poverty and treachery?

4. Why have the Indians never been involved with the Civil Rights movement?

5. What does the Indian religion require of its followers that is so vastly different from Christian religions?

6. How does the Bureau of Indian Affairs give the Indians an advantage for services over other Americans in need?

7. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

8. Why does the joke about Falling Rocks bridge the racial gap?

9. What is welfare based on?

10. According to Indian history, when did the reservation system really begin to improve and what happened when it did?

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