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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?
(a) The Senecas.
(b) The Cherokees.
(c) The Sioux.
(d) The Kiowa.

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

3. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?
(a) They gave back hunting and fishing rights on their land.
(b) They received a judgement against the U.S. for $2.6 million, but nneded enabling legislation to spend it.
(c) They offered to accept their tribal marriages.
(d) They gave them new schools and built new roads.

4. Why, according to the author, do anthropologists never carry a writing instrument?
(a) Because they already know what they are going to find.
(b) Because they are afraid they will hurt a child with it.
(c) Because they would rather record than write for accuracy.
(d) Because the ink dries up in the sun.

5. What was the Senate Interior Committee afraid of after the passage of the Wheeler-Howard act?
(a) They were afraid of foreign influences.
(b) They were afraid of the Civil Rights Movement.
(c) They were afraid the French would want the land back.
(d) They were afraid of Indian unity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Congressional policy of termination begin?

2. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?

3. What does an anthropologist come to the reservation to do?

4. How long did the Indians have under the Wheeler-Howard Act to make a decision about their reservation?

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

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