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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the author, is welfare designed to do?
(a) Compensate people insofar as they deviate from the norm of society.
(b) Compensate people who don't need it.
(c) Compensate people who are too poor to make much use of it.
(d) Compensate people who complain the loudest.

2. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?
(a) Interpreted an ancient statute in favor of blacks in the matter of purchasing a house.
(b) It drained a dam and gave Indians back land on the east coast.
(c) It ruled in favor of urban development for Indians.
(d) It ruled in favor of water rights for African Americans.

3. What did Popovi Da say about the Indians being the first people in American?
(a) "We had reservations."
(b) "We saw it first."
(c) "We knew a good thing when we saw it."
(d) "We love the reservation, what's not to love?"

4. Under what presidential administration did the policy of Relocation begin?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Truman.

5. In 1964, what percentage of Indian thought the United States should get out of America?
(a) 85 percent.
(b) 15 percent.
(c) 90 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

6. As stated in Part 8, what must the white man do before he can relate to others?
(a) He must connect to the land.
(b) He must forego the pleasure of defining them.
(c) He must define his own history.
(d) He must understand that he is superior to others.

7. What was the first concern of mission work on the reservation?
(a) Getting clothing for the Indians.
(b) Getting the Indians to come to church.
(c) Getting the Indians food.
(d) Land on which to build churches, homes, storehouses and other monuments.

8. Among the Sioux in the Dakotas, what was the Sun Dance reinterpreted as?
(a) Christmas service.
(b) Palm Sunday service.
(c) Tenebre service.
(d) The annual convocation of the missions on each reservation.

9. What is the most popular and enduring subject of Indian humor?
(a) Sitting Bull.
(b) Geronimo.
(c) George Washington.
(d) General Custer.

10. In 1967, where was the conference on Manpower held?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Seattle.

11. Who does the area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Aberdeen, South Dakota serve?
(a) The tribes of Canada.
(b) The tribes of the Dakotas and Nebraska.
(c) The tribes of Kansas.
(d) The tribes of Minnesota and the Great Lakes.

12. What did Senator Clinton Anderson announce in 1968?
(a) That the federal government needed to spend more money on the Indian.
(b) That the federal government needed to close the reservations.
(c) That the federal government should support only those Indians living in urban areas.
(d) That the federal government was spending nearly half a billion dollars a year on Indian people and therefore he did not think they were so neglected.

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

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

15. What is the best service offered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs area offices?
(a) Communication with Washington.
(b) Posting job openings.
(c) Helping with construction projects.
(d) Keeping records.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened during World War II on reservations?

2. What provides keen insight into a group's collective psyche?

3. What is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the area offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

4. When death is unreal, how does this affect violence?

5. What, spiritually, was Robert Kennedy?

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