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

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

3. What is the reputation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Juneau?
(a) It is run by white men.
(b) It has the best reputation for service to native peoples of any of the area offices.
(c) It is representative of the people it serves.
(d) It holds fast to fishing rights.

4. How is the top job in the Bureau of Indian Affairs filled?
(a) The House picks the person.
(b) By appointment.
(c) The Senate picks the person.
(d) The person is voted in by the Indians.

5. What did the new immigrants do to organize themselves in their new land?
(a) They learned Indian art.
(b) They transplanted European social and political systems.
(c) They asked the Indians for help.
(d) They borrowed from Indian culture and myth to build their basis of laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?

2. Among the Sioux in the Dakotas, what was the Sun Dance reinterpreted as?

3. How many area offices does the Bureau of Indian Affairs have throughout the country?

4. What does the author believe the Indians should have a right to, just like water districts, cities, and towns?

5. What is one of the main beliefs of the Indians about their religion?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

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

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

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

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

7. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

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

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

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

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