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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 happened over time to young Indian men who wanted to enter the ministry?
(a) They were rejected.
(b) They became priests in the Catholic Church.
(c) They were sent away to school.
(d) They became Methodist ministers.

2. What did Billy Mills do?
(a) He won the ten thousand meter run at the Olympics.
(b) He was a pole vaulter at the Olympics.
(c) He became the first Indian Senator.
(d) He became the first Indian astronaut.

3. What do the Indians believe about land?
(a) That it is not very important.
(b) That it is the mother of all.
(c) That it can be shared.
(d) That it belongs to everyone.

4. Blacks (African Americans) and Indians (American Indians) defines racial problems with one focal point. What is it?
(a) Racial equality.
(b) Land rights.
(c) The White Man.
(d) The government.

5. What, spiritually, was Robert Kennedy?
(a) An Indian.
(b) A white man.
(c) An Irishman.
(d) An American.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Senator Clinton Anderson announce in 1968?

3. Where did Billy Mills grow up?

4. What is the highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?

5. Who was Clyde Warrior?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

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

10. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

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