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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What treaty did John F. Kennedy break?
(a) The Treaty of 1963.
(b) The Landfill Treaty.
(c) The Pickering Treaty.
(d) The Northwest Coast FishingTreaty.

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

4. What, according to the author, is the problem with the white man's economic system?
(a) It is not real.
(b) It is based on the stock market.
(c) It is not based on the world economy.
(d) It is separate from European and Japanese markets.

5. What did the Indians see on TV that turned them off to the Civil Rights Movement?
(a) Malcom X.
(b) The March on Washington.
(c) Martin Luther King.
(d) Looting.

6. What is the highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?
(a) To tend to the sick.
(b) To pray.
(c) To share one's goods.
(d) To be in church on Sundays.

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

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

9. In 1964, what percentage of Indians thought the United States should get out of Vietnam?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 85 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 15 percent.

10. When the buffalo were gone, what did the Sioux eat to keep from starving?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Skunks.
(c) Cats.
(d) Deer.

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

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

13. What happened during World War II on reservations?
(a) Indians were drafted and many reservations lost their leaders.
(b) Money increased under Roosevelt and the reservations were well funded.
(c) All progress stopped and funds were scarce.
(d) Women took over men's jobs, just like in the rest of the country.

14. What favorite hymn surprised old warriors in church?
(a) By the River.
(b) My God is an Awesome God.
(c) Closer my God to Thee.
(d) Onward Christian Soldiers.

15. What is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the area offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
(a) Lack of computers.
(b) Lack of manpower.
(c) Lack of funds.
(d) Lack of resources for buidling projects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Aberdeen office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs known for?

2. How is the top job in the Bureau of Indian Affairs filled?

3. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?

4. What did the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Minneapolis do in Tama, Iowa?

5. What was the main goal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs when it was started?

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