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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many tribal communities get federal services?
(a) 30.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) 10.
(d) Thousands.

2. In the minds of most Indians, what is the best way to eradicate a species?
(a) Put it in the care of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(b) Authorize Stewart Udall to conserve it.
(c) Let white America care for it.
(d) Hand it over to the care of the Interior Department.

3. What was one emphasis outlined in the Termination Act?
(a) For the state governor to oversee the Indians.
(b) For the state to assume responsibility for the tribes and its members.
(c) For the state to play no role in termination.
(d) For the state Senate to rule over the Indians.

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

5. Why, according to the author, do anthropologists never carry a writing instrument?
(a) Because the ink dries up in the sun.
(b) Because they are afraid they will hurt a child with it.
(c) Because they already know what they are going to find.
(d) Because they would rather record than write for accuracy.

6. What does not overlap across state boundaries?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Tribes.
(c) Water.
(d) Treaty rights.

7. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Horses.
(c) Gold.
(d) 135 million acres of land.

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

9. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?
(a) The government gave the land away after the Civil War to former slaves.
(b) The government built a dam, which flooded the major part of the Seneca reservation and the treaty was broken.
(c) The government passed a new law in 1869 abolishing the treaty.
(d) Nothing, it still exists.

10. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?
(a) They feel they paid when they gave up two billion acres of land to the U.S.
(b) They pay state taxes, but refuse to pay federal taxes.
(c) They feel they owe taxes.
(d) They feel, like other Americans, that they must pay taxes that are due.

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

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

13. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?
(a) The Wheeler-Howard act was a success.
(b) The Wheeler-Howard act needed an amendment for money to build new schools.
(c) The Wheeler-Howard act was not accomplishing the task of bringing the Indian people up to the level of their white neighbors.
(d) The Wheeler-Howard act was working well.

14. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?
(a) The Dawes Treaty.
(b) The Church Treaty.
(c) The Pickering Treaty.
(d) The Allotment Treaty.

15. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?
(a) To get them better hospitals and roads.
(b) To combine them with tribes in Oklahoma.
(c) Better to have them expire as private citizens than let anyone know how badly they had been treated.
(d) To move them to Missouri.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do anthropologists believe Indians drink?

2. According to the author, for those whites who do not claim Indian heritage, what asset do they have that connects them with American Indians?

3. How long did the Indians have under the Wheeler-Howard Act to make a decision about their reservation?

4. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?

5. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?

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