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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. 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.

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

3. Who is Frank Takes Gun?
(a) The leader of the Native American Church.
(b) The chairman of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(c) A gun-control lobbyist.
(d) The author of this book.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the new immigrants do to organize themselves in their new land?

2. What kind of groups, according to the author, do people have little sympathy for?

3. What has been the basis on which racial relations have been defined ever since the first settlers got off the boat?

4. As stated in Part 8, what must the white man do before he can relate to others?

5. What, spiritually, was Robert Kennedy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author think about the Republican political party?

2. What do the Indians share with the Hebrews of the Old Testament?

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

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

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

6. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

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

8. Why have many tribes decided NOT to use government help to build up their reservations?

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

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

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