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

2. As stated in Part 8, what must the white man do before he can relate to others?
(a) He must define his own history.
(b) He must understand that he is superior to others.
(c) He must forego the pleasure of defining them.
(d) He must connect to the land.

3. What was the result of Christian missions on the reservations?
(a) To uplift Indian society.
(b) To re-establish the Native American Church.
(c) To gather Indian ministers.
(d) To shatter Indian society.

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

5. What, according to many Indians, is the culture of the white man?
(a) War with Indians.
(b) Continual exploitation.
(c) Violence with the Indians.
(d) Continual exploration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Indians see on TV that turned them off to the Civil Rights Movement?

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

3. During the 1950s, where were the Indian Health Services transferred to?

4. How is the top job in the Bureau of Indian Affairs filled?

5. As far as race relations were concerned, how were Indians classified?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is welfare based on?

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

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

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

5. What happened when the government decided to move the Bureau of Indian Affairs to Health, Education and Welfare?

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

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

8. What, according to the author, does white America depend on as culture?

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

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

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