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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Native American Church view death?
(a) As a punishment.
(b) As a symbol of peace.
(c) As a natural occurrence and not a special punishment.
(d) As a warning from God.

2. What provision did Watkins attach to the bill for the Menominee distribution of judgment money?
(a) A provision for hunting rights.
(b) A provision of termination.
(c) A provision for water rights.
(d) A provision for mineral rights.

3. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?
(a) That the tribes had titles of ownership to all land.
(b) That the tribes rent land from the government.
(c) That the tribes could give their land away if they wished.
(d) That the tribes have no title to the land at all, only occupancy rights.

4. What political aspirations did the Seneca's accuse the government of having regarding the oldest Indian treaty?
(a) President Kennedy needed the land to bargain with the Russians during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(b) The dam was part of the price of keeping Pennsylvania in line for John F. Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic Convention.
(c) President Kennedy wanted to add the land to Camp David.
(d) Senator Kennedy wanted to buy the land for his own family.

5. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?
(a) The tribes could jail them.
(b) The tribes could punish them.
(c) The tribes could call for government back-up.
(d) The tribes could banish them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?

2. What had Dillon Myer been in charge of during World War II?

3. Why, according to the author, do anthropologists never carry a writing instrument?

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

5. Who did missionaries believe the American Indians were when they connected their religion with the tribes they encountered?

(see the answer key)

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