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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to most of the treaties in the far west of the country?
(a) The field offices lost the written documents years ago.
(b) The written documents never made it back to Washington.
(c) They were never ratified by Congress.
(d) They were never broken and followed carefully.

2. What did Lake Superior hold that the government wanted?
(a) Water.
(b) Copper and other minerals.
(c) Shipping rights.
(d) Fishing rights.

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

4. What had Dillon Myer been in charge of during World War II?
(a) The attack on Tokyo.
(b) Pearl Harbor security.
(c) Japanese internment camps.
(d) The Manhattan Project.

5. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?
(a) They tripled their land mass.
(b) Utah promised them recognition by the federal government of their tribal marriages.
(c) They offered them money in return for termination.
(d) They told the Indians that the state would be running their services and it would be more efficient.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did treaties initially do?

2. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?

3. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?

4. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?

5. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?

(see the answer key)

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