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

2. As far as race relations were concerned, how were Indians classified?
(a) As white.
(b) As non-whites.
(c) As Negros.
(d) As redmen.

3. What kind of groups, according to the author, do people have little sympathy for?
(a) Rude groups.
(b) Funny groups.
(c) Stolid groups.
(d) Polite groups.

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

5. During the 1950s, where were the Indian Health Services transferred to?
(a) The Department of Commerce.
(b) The Department of the Interior.
(c) The Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
(d) The War Department.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Louie Sitting Crow do for fun?

3. What was one good, tangible result of Indian participation in the Poor People's Campaign?

4. What did Billy Mills do?

5. What is the joke about the Bureau of Indian Affairs area office in Portland?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is welfare based on?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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