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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Arthur Watkins?
(a) A Mormon named as head the Indian subcommittees in the Senate and House.
(b) A poet who wrote about the Indian problems.
(c) The chairman appointed to run the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(d) President Truman's Chief of Staff.

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

3. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?
(a) The governor of Florida.
(b) Arthur Watkins.
(c) Congress.
(d) The D.A.R. or Daughters of the American Revolution.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1964, what percentage of Indians thought the United States should get out of Vietnam?

2. What was the first concern of mission work on the reservation?

3. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?

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

5. How do the Indians control social situations?

(see the answer key)

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