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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Indians joke about when asked what the country was called before "America?"
(a) "Indian."
(b) "Ours."
(c) "Freedom."
(d) "Land of the Brave."

2. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?
(a) Get them health care as quickly as possible.
(b) Get their land as quickly as possible.
(c) Get them money as quickly as possible.
(d) Get rid of them as quickly as possible.

3. Who appointed Dillon Myer as Commissioner of Indian Affairs?
(a) President Truman.
(b) President Eisenhower.
(c) President Nixon.
(d) President Roosevelt.

4. Where did Billy Mills grow up?
(a) Sioux City, South Dakota.
(b) Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
(c) Topeka, Kansas.
(d) Enid, Oklahoma.

5. Why did the Indians support Urban Renewal?
(a) They thought that African Americans could use the support.
(b) They thought they could get a piece of the action moneywise.
(c) They joked that everyone else would move to the city and they could fence them off and run buffalo all over the country again.
(d) They thought it might help urban Indians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the survey of 1086 called?

3. Who are the Five Civilized Tribes?

4. When Watkins visited the Menominee, what did he compare the living conditions to?

5. What do the Indians believe about land?

(see the answer key)

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