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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?
(a) There was a one year delay on all services while the tribe voted.
(b) The Indians would have to give up hunting rights.
(c) The Indians would have to move again and give up more land.
(d) Once a reservation voted against the acceptance of the provisions of the act, they were forbidden from considering it again.

2. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?
(a) With new rules established by white men.
(b) With outside help.
(c) In traditional Indian fashion.
(d) With government intervention.

3. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?
(a) The Cherokees.
(b) The Sioux.
(c) The Kiowa.
(d) The Senecas.

4. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?
(a) Establish a cultural leave-us-alone agreement.
(b) Pass laws removing all federal government from Indian proceedings.
(c) Begin talks with the federal government on land rights.
(d) Establish a cultural inclusion policy.

5. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they do not work.
(b) Because they live in an area where there is no work.
(c) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their water rights.
(d) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their hunting rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin awarded?

2. Who appointed Dillon Myer as Commissioner of Indian Affairs?

3. What did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?

4. What phrases does Mr. Farb continue to use when talking about Indians?

5. Who was asked to testify before the Senate Civil Service Committee in 1947?

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