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

2. How does the Native American Church view death?
(a) As a warning from God.
(b) As a punishment.
(c) As a natural occurrence and not a special punishment.
(d) As a symbol of peace.

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

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

5. Among the Sioux in the Dakotas, what was the Sun Dance reinterpreted as?
(a) The annual convocation of the missions on each reservation.
(b) Palm Sunday service.
(c) Tenebre service.
(d) Christmas service.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, spiritually, was Robert Kennedy?

2. What do the Indians believe about land?

3. What treaty did John F. Kennedy break?

4. Who is the prophet of peace on the Hopi reservation?

5. In 1967, where was the conference on Manpower held?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why were other groups insulted by the cards that read "We Shall Overrun?"

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

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