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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?
(a) People are always interested in your "plight."
(b) You get to live on a reservation.
(c) It is lucrative to be an American Indian.
(d) People like you on sight.

2. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?
(a) The Alaskan Inuits and the Pueblos of New Mexico.
(b) The Nez Perce and the Sioux.
(c) The Apaches of the Southwest and the Northwest Coast Indians.
(d) Pueblos of New Mexico and the Apache of the Southwest.

3. When whites claim Indian heritage, who do they believe was their ancestor?
(a) Pocahontas.
(b) George Washington.
(c) An Indian Princess.
(d) Lewis and Clark.

4. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?
(a) The National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Youth Council.
(b) The National Water Rights of Indian Reservations.
(c) The National War Survivors of America.
(d) The National Land Rights Owners.

5. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?
(a) As Civil Wars.
(b) As the first foreign wars of American history.
(c) As conflicts, not wars.
(d) Not as wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?

2. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?

3. What has created a feeling of unity among American Indians?

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

5. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?

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