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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best service offered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs area offices?

2. What happened over time to young Indian men who wanted to enter the ministry?

3. What, according to the author, is welfare designed to do?

4. In 1964, what percentage of Indians thought the United States should get out of Vietnam?

5. As stated in Part 8, what must the white man do before he can relate to others?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is welfare based on?

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

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

4. What is the problem with earmarked money? What is earmarked money?

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

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

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

8. Why have the Indians never been involved with the Civil Rights movement?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Paternalism and how does it relate to the relationship between the American government and the Bureau of Indian Affairs? Is this a relationship that can be altered in the future? How?

Essay Topic 2

Why must the answer to all Indian issues be a single answer? Why can it not be several answers? Explain the movement of the single answer theory and why this has stopped progress.

Essay Topic 3

Where do the myths about American Indians come from? How are they perpetuated today?

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