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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What French rationalist did the House Interior Committee use as a basis for their study of Indian Affairs?
(a) Blount Concur.
(b) Rene Descartes.
(c) Fred Callings.
(d) Mme. Frankser.

2. What other name is the Wheeler-Howard Act known by?
(a) The Reorganization Act of 1934.
(b) The Cavalry Act.
(c) The Indian Encampment Act.
(d) The Howard- Wheeler Act.

3. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?
(a) White America.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The United States Government.
(d) The Reorganization Act.

4. What year did the Congressional policy of termination begin?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1934.

5. What kind of people do anthropologists believe the Indians are?
(a) A white people.
(b) A foreign people.
(c) A native people.
(d) A folk people.

6. What is regarded as utter hypocrisy by the Indian people?
(a) The attempt of churches to appear relevant to the social needs of the 1960's.
(b) The government caring about the Indian People.
(c) White Americans caring about the Indian People.
(d) Anthopologists caring about the Indian People.

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

8. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?
(a) As neighbors and friends.
(b) As a militantly imperialistic world power eagerly grasping for economic control over weaker nations.
(c) America has always honored other nations, but not the Indians.
(d) America tries to help other countries, but sometimes oversteps their boundaries.

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

10. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?
(a) A series on Custer.
(b) A series on Kennedy.
(c) A series on Lewis and Clark.
(d) A series on Davy Crockett.

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

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 water rights.
(c) A provision for mineral rights.
(d) A provision for hunting rights.

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

14. What phrases does Mr. Farb continue to use when talking about Indians?
(a) Inferior.
(b) Test tubes and living laboratories.
(c) Stupid and slow.
(d) Below standard.

15. What "first" did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 enact?
(a) The first time land was sold by the Indians.
(b) The first time land was returned to the Indians.
(c) The first clear-cut case of fraudulent dealings on part of Congress.
(d) The first time water was sold by the Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?

2. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?

3. What was the Senate Interior Committee afraid of after the passage of the Wheeler-Howard act?

4. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?

5. What is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?

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