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

2. How are young Indians connected to anthropologists?
(a) They teach anthroplogists about their art.
(b) They have become unwitting missionaries for anthropologists.
(c) They teach anthropologists about their culture.
(d) They assist them in their work.

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

4. What did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?
(a) Two thousand dollars.
(b) A million dollars.
(c) One hundred and forty thousand dollars.
(d) Two hundred dollars.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?

3. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?

4. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?

5. What has created a feeling of unity among American Indians?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the treatment of the Choctaws. Why was their treatment worse when compared to other Indian peoples?

2. What is the history of the Sioux who lived along the Missouri River?

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

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

5. What are the 4 main rules to Rene Descartes' method of research? Was this a good method to examine the lives of Indians for Termination?

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

7. Describe what happens to the Virginia Indians each year at Thanksgiving. What is this in response to?

8. What is unique about the Apache of the Southwest?

9. 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?

10. What are the myths associated with Indian Affairs?

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