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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?
(a) They received a judgement against the U.S. for $2.6 million, but nneded enabling legislation to spend it.
(b) They gave them new schools and built new roads.
(c) They gave back hunting and fishing rights on their land.
(d) They offered to accept their tribal marriages.

2. When does the author believe was the last time that true democracy was alive among Indian tribes?
(a) Pre-Columbian days.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1756.

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

4. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?
(a) Their uncle's.
(b) Their grandfathers.
(c) Their aunt's.
(d) Their grandmother's.

5. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?
(a) The Indians want to control their own destiny.
(b) That the state would be more efficient than the Federal Government in caring for them.
(c) The Indians would be better off on their own, without government involvement.
(d) The Indians should become Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?

2. What is regarded as utter hypocrisy by the Indian people?

3. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?

4. Who was Arthur Watkins?

5. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?

(see the answer key)

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