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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 did treaties initially do?
(a) They marked the boundaries between the lands of the Indian nations and the U.S.
(b) They divided the church territories.
(c) They promised ownership of land that still belonged to the French.
(d) They helped establish state lines.

2. What does the author suggest that each anthropologist should have to do in order to study a tribe?
(a) He must get on a waiting list and be approved by the tribe he wishes to visit.
(b) He must apply to a tribal committee.
(c) He must donate an equal amount of money to the tribe that he spent on the study.
(d) He must apply through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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

4. What is the fundamental thesis of the anthropologist?
(a) That people are lost in this world and need saving.
(b) That people are different and deserve study.
(c) That people are objects for observation.
(d) That people are human and have a range of emotions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main problem for the Plains Indians?

2. Who signed the original treaties with the Northwest Coast American Indians?

3. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?

4. What was Stewart Udall's explanation about why the Indians had not made progress like his friends in Arizona?

5. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Treaty of August 5, 1826 with the Chippewa tribe known for?

2. What happens every summer with work camps and teenagers? What do the teenagers learn in one month that adults do not understand? What is the author's point about this program?

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

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

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

6. What did anthropologists find about alcoholism on the reservation? What does the author think of this finding?

7. 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?

8. How does the author describe anthropologists? What is his attitude and tone when discussing this group of people?

9. Why was Termination such a tragedy for the people of the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin?

10. Why are hunting and fishing rights important to the Indians of Idaho, Washington and Oregon at the time of this writing?

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