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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 was the main goal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when it was started?
(a) To dirve the Indians to Oklahoma.
(b) To make sure the Indian became extinct.
(c) To prevent the extinction of the Indian.
(d) To drive the Indians to reservations.

2. Blacks (African Americans) and Indians (American Indians) defines racial problems with one focal point. What is it?
(a) Land rights.
(b) Racial equality.
(c) The White Man.
(d) The government.

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

4. What is the joke about the Bureau of Indian Affairs area office in Portland?
(a) That you have to walk through the paperwork.
(b) That you need a crane to see into the office.
(c) That the office doesn't exist, it is a mirage.
(d) That Judge Crater and Amelia Earhart were hidden somewhere in the Portland office.

5. Who was Clyde Warrior?
(a) A writer.
(b) An artist.
(c) A poet.
(d) Perhaps the greatest wit in Indian country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Billy Mills grow up?

2. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?

3. What, according to the author, will happen to America in the end?

4. Under what presidential administration did the policy of Relocation begin?

5. What provides keen insight into a group's collective psyche?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is welfare based on?

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

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

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

6. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

7. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

8. Discuss the Indian religious idea of sharing one's goods.

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

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

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