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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 Department was the Bureau of Indian Affairs transferred to when it opened in 1849?
(a) The Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
(b) The Department of Commerce.
(c) The War Department.
(d) The Department of the Interior.

2. Why did the Indians support Urban Renewal?
(a) They thought it might help urban Indians.
(b) They thought that African Americans could use the support.
(c) They joked that everyone else would move to the city and they could fence them off and run buffalo all over the country again.
(d) They thought they could get a piece of the action moneywise.

3. When death is unreal, how does this affect violence?
(a) Violence becomes more real.
(b) Violence becomes unreal too.
(c) Violence become natural.
(d) Violence becomes easy.

4. Who was Clyde Warrior?
(a) A writer.
(b) Perhaps the greatest wit in Indian country.
(c) An artist.
(d) A poet.

5. How many area offices does the Bureau of Indian Affairs have throughout the country?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 51.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Louie Sitting Crow do for fun?

2. Who are the Five Civilized Tribes?

3. In 1967, where was the conference on Manpower held?

4. What happened during World War II on reservations?

5. Who did Clyde Warrior support in the 1964 Presidential Campaign?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

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

4. Why have the Indians never been involved with the Civil Rights movement?

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

6. Why do the Indians consider Indian policy foreign policy?

7. What happened when the government decided to move the Bureau of Indian Affairs to Health, Education and Welfare?

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

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

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

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