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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?
(a) Their medical care is not as good as American Indians.
(b) They live in colder climates and have better housing.
(c) They have not had their basic governmental forms disturbed.
(d) They are paid by the government NOT to grow crops.

2. What kind of hats to anthropologists wear?
(a) Straw hats.
(b) Baseball caps.
(c) Australian bush hats.
(d) Indian warbonnets.

3. Who was asked to testify before the Senate Civil Service Committee in 1947?
(a) Geronimo.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) William Zimmerman.
(d) Frank Wheeler.

4. When Watkins visited the Menominee, what did he compare the living conditions to?
(a) Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack.
(b) Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.
(c) War torn Italy.
(d) The refugee camps of the Near East after World War II.

5. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?
(a) The Native American Baseball League.
(b) The League of Nations, Pan American Indians.
(c) The Women's American Indian League.
(d) The League of American Indian Voters.

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

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

8. Why did the Oglala Sioux become a favorite subject for study by anthropologists?
(a) Because of the vibrant present.
(b) Because of the art history.
(c) Because of their unique way of life.
(d) Because of their romantic past.

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

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

11. What other name is the Dawes Act known by?
(a) The Allotment Act.
(b) The Indian Referral Act.
(c) The Peace Act.
(d) The Indian Ownership Act.

12. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?
(a) That the Cherokee Nation could not take money from foreign powers.
(b) That the cherokee Nation could not hold any treaty with any foreign power.
(c) That the Cherokee Nation could not become French citizens.
(d) That the Cherokee Nation could not marry foreigners.

13. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?
(a) The governor of Florida.
(b) Congress.
(c) The D.A.R. or Daughters of the American Revolution.
(d) Arthur Watkins.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the author, did the death of President Kennedy and Sitting Bull have in common?

2. What does the author suggest that each anthropologist should have to do in order to study a tribe?

3. Like the missionaries, what have anthropologists become intolerably certain of?

4. What have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?

5. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?

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