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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Billy Mills do?
(a) He was a pole vaulter at the Olympics.
(b) He won the ten thousand meter run at the Olympics.
(c) He became the first Indian astronaut.
(d) He became the first Indian Senator.

2. What did treaties initially do?
(a) They divided the church territories.
(b) They marked the boundaries between the lands of the Indian nations and the U.S.
(c) They promised ownership of land that still belonged to the French.
(d) They helped establish state lines.

3. What did Lake Superior hold that the government wanted?
(a) Shipping rights.
(b) Copper and other minerals.
(c) Water.
(d) Fishing rights.

4. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?
(a) It drained a dam and gave Indians back land on the east coast.
(b) It ruled in favor of urban development for Indians.
(c) It ruled in favor of water rights for African Americans.
(d) Interpreted an ancient statute in favor of blacks in the matter of purchasing a house.

5. Who did missionaries believe the American Indians were when they connected their religion with the tribes they encountered?
(a) Russians.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) Mayans.
(d) The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?

2. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?

3. What is the main problem for the Plains Indians?

4. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?

5. What kind of hats to anthropologists wear?

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