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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) "Ours."
(b) "Freedom."
(c) "Land of the Brave."
(d) "Indian."

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

3. In 1966, what did the secret Presidential Task Force recommend doing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
(a) Transfer the Bureau to the Commerce Department.
(b) Transfer the Bureau to the Dept. of the Interior.
(c) Transfer the Bureau to Health, Education and Welfare.
(d) Transfer the Bureau to the War Department.

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

5. Under what presidential administration did the policy of Relocation begin?
(a) Truman.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?

2. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?

3. How do the Indians control social situations?

4. Who is the prophet of peace on the Hopi reservation?

5. How much was the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin awarded?

(see the answer key)

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