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

2. What did the white man systematically destroy for the Indians?
(a) Their culture.
(b) Their language.
(c) Their schools.
(d) Their art.

3. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?
(a) Because they were scouts for the French.
(b) Because they were the most like white men.
(c) Because they had European contact.
(d) Because they were civilized.

4. What do the Indians believe about land?
(a) That it is not very important.
(b) That it belongs to everyone.
(c) That it is the mother of all.
(d) That it can be shared.

5. What did Louie Sitting Crow do for fun?
(a) Give money and food to tourists.
(b) Watch the tourists who traveled Highway 16 on their way to the Black Hills.
(c) Help tourists gas their vehicles.
(d) Tell tourists about Indian fokelore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?

2. What does the Native American Church use in its sacramental worship life?

3. Where did Billy Mills grow up?

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

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

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

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

5. What does the Indian religion require of its followers that is so vastly different from Christian religions?

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

7. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

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

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

10. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

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