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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, according to the author, is the problem with the white man's economic system?
(a) It is based on the stock market.
(b) It is separate from European and Japanese markets.
(c) It is not based on the world economy.
(d) It is not real.

2. Where did Billy Mills grow up?
(a) Sioux City, South Dakota.
(b) Topeka, Kansas.
(c) Enid, Oklahoma.
(d) Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

3. 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 built a school with no road to it.
(c) They abruptly closed the grade school.
(d) They moved all the reservations in the area to the Tama, Iowa school.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did the Indians support Urban Renewal?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the first program offered by the African Americans after the Civil War and what happened to that program?

3. According to the author, what would happen if the Bureau of Indian Affairs were abolished?

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

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

6. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

7. Do the Indians deserve the services they get? Why? Why not?

8. What is the problem with earmarked money? What is earmarked money?

9. How is teasing used as a teaching tool for Indians and how can it be used as a parenting tool?

10. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

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