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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?
(a) The Korean Conflict.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The Spanish-American War.
(d) WWII.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?

4. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Indians become citizens and what effect did this have on Termination?

2. What are the Five Civilized Tribes and why are they referred to in this way?

3. What was the Pickering Treaty? Why was it thus named? What was the final outcome of the Pickering Treaty?

4. According to the author, what European background is the law of the United States built on?

5. How did William Zimmerman, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs classify existing tribes into categories for Termination?

6. How have the workshops offered by anthropologists affected the young Indians?

7. What happened to the Seneca Nation of New York?

8. What are the myths associated with Indian Affairs?

9. What is paternalism?

10. Why are the American Indians lost when, in Congressional hearings, the chairman of the committee talks about the Anglo-Saxon heritage of law and order?

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