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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Among the Sioux in the Dakotas, what was the Sun Dance reinterpreted as?
(a) The annual convocation of the missions on each reservation.
(b) Tenebre service.
(c) Christmas service.
(d) Palm Sunday service.

2. What happened over time to young Indian men who wanted to enter the ministry?
(a) They became Methodist ministers.
(b) They were rejected.
(c) They became priests in the Catholic Church.
(d) They were sent away to school.

3. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?
(a) The United States Government.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The Reorganization Act.
(d) White America.

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

5. What year did the Congressional policy of termination begin?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?

2. What were the record years for the Christian church on the reservations?

3. What, according to the author, did the death of President Kennedy and Sitting Bull have in common?

4. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?

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

(see the answer key)

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