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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Gold.
(d) Buffalo.

2. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?
(a) The Native American Baseball League.
(b) The League of Nations, Pan American Indians.
(c) The League of American Indian Voters.
(d) The Women's American Indian League.

3. What is regarded as utter hypocrisy by the Indian people?
(a) White Americans caring about the Indian People.
(b) Anthopologists caring about the Indian People.
(c) The attempt of churches to appear relevant to the social needs of the 1960's.
(d) The government caring about the Indian People.

4. Who did missionaries believe the American Indians were when they connected their religion with the tribes they encountered?
(a) Russians.
(b) The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
(c) Mayans.
(d) The Spanish.

5. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?
(a) That the Cherokee Nation could not marry foreigners.
(b) That the cherokee Nation could not hold any treaty with any foreign power.
(c) That the Cherokee Nation could not become French citizens.
(d) That the Cherokee Nation could not take money from foreign powers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?

2. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?

3. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?

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

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

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