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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 Department was the Bureau of Indian Affairs transferred to when it opened in 1849?
(a) The Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
(b) The Department of the Interior.
(c) The Department of Commerce.
(d) The War Department.

2. 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 Kansas.
(c) The tribes of Minnesota and the Great Lakes.
(d) The tribes of the Dakotas and Nebraska.

3. Who is the prophet of peace on the Hopi reservation?
(a) Geronimo.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) Papovi Da.
(d) Thomas Banyaca.

4. What did Martin Luther King organize in the spring of 1968?
(a) The Poor People's Campaign.
(b) The Indian Reorganization Act.
(c) The African American Coalition.
(d) The Muslim Speaker.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Louie Sitting Crow do for fun?

2. Why did the Indians support Urban Renewal?

3. When Indians looked at pictures of the Disciples, what were they surprised to find?

4. Who are the Five Civilized Tribes?

5. In 1964, what percentage of Indians thought the United States should get out of Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is welfare based on?

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

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

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

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

6. Why do the Indians consider Indian policy foreign policy?

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

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

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

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

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