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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. In 1966, what did the secret Presidential Task Force recommend doing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
(a) Transfer the Bureau to Health, Education and Welfare.
(b) Transfer the Bureau to the War Department.
(c) Transfer the Bureau to the Commerce Department.
(d) Transfer the Bureau to the Dept. of the Interior.

2. What did Martin Luther King organize in the spring of 1968?
(a) The Muslim Speaker.
(b) The Poor People's Campaign.
(c) The Indian Reorganization Act.
(d) The African American Coalition.

3. What does the Native American Church use in its sacramental worship life?
(a) The peyote button.
(b) Communion.
(c) Prayer shawls.
(d) Dance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Indians support Urban Renewal?

2. What did the white man systematically destroy for the Indians?

3. What were the record years for the Christian church on the reservations?

4. What did Louie Sitting Crow do for fun?

5. How do the Indians control social situations?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is welfare based on?

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

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

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

5. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

6. What does the author think about the Republican political party?

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

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

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

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

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