View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once a church was assigned to a reservation, what happened to the other churches?
(a) Other churches could invite Indians to worship on their reservation.
(b) Other churches could talk to members of the reservation to try to gain access.
(c) They could also build a church on the same reservation.
(d) They were prohibited from entering a reservation.

2. What did Senator Clinton Anderson announce in 1968?
(a) That the federal government should support only those Indians living in urban areas.
(b) That the federal government needed to close the reservations.
(c) That the federal government needed to spend more money on the Indian.
(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.

3. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?
(a) It ruled in favor of water rights for African Americans.
(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) Interpreted an ancient statute in favor of blacks in the matter of purchasing a house.

4. What did Indians joke about when asked what the country was called before "America?"
(a) "Freedom."
(b) "Land of the Brave."
(c) "Ours."
(d) "Indian."

5. What is the Aberdeen office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs known for?
(a) It is the smallest office.
(b) It is the most removed office from the Indians it serves.
(c) It is the most religious of the area offices.
(d) It is the largest office.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?

2. Among the Sioux in the Dakotas, what was the Sun Dance reinterpreted as?

3. What, spiritually, was Robert Kennedy?

4. What, according to the author, is the problem with the white man's economic system?

5. What did Billy Mills do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

3. Why were other groups insulted by the cards that read "We Shall Overrun?"

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

5. What does the author believe that every group must have to become a reality?

6. What is welfare based on?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 977 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample