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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 offered to accept their tribal marriages.
(c) They gave back hunting and fishing rights on their land.
(d) They gave them new schools and built new roads.

2. How many tribal communities get federal services?
(a) 30.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) 10.

3. What is the fundamental thesis of the anthropologist?
(a) That people are different and deserve study.
(b) That people are objects for observation.
(c) That people are lost in this world and need saving.
(d) That people are human and have a range of emotions.

4. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?
(a) The Wheeler-Howard act was working well.
(b) The Wheeler-Howard act needed an amendment for money to build new schools.
(c) The Wheeler-Howard act was a success.
(d) The Wheeler-Howard act was not accomplishing the task of bringing the Indian people up to the level of their white neighbors.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Senate Interior Committee afraid of after the passage of the Wheeler-Howard act?

2. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?

3. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?

4. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?

5. What do the Indians believe about land?

(see the answer key)

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