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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 highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?

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

3. What did Louie Sitting Crow do for fun?

4. What is the most popular and enduring subject of Indian humor?

5. What, according to the author, will happen to America in the end?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the joke about Falling Rocks bridge the racial gap?

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

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

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

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

7. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the author's opinion of welfare? Does he think it necessary for Indians? Why? Why not?

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

How do Indians view the Kennedy's? Do they feel that the Kennedy administration helped or hurt them? How do they feel about Robert Kennedy? How do Indians view the Kennedy assassinations?

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