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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author suggest that each anthropologist should have to do in order to study a tribe?
(a) He must get on a waiting list and be approved by the tribe he wishes to visit.
(b) He must donate an equal amount of money to the tribe that he spent on the study.
(c) He must apply to a tribal committee.
(d) He must apply through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

2. What act was passed by the American government in 1934?
(a) The Indian Reorganization Act.
(b) The American Indian Poverty Act.
(c) The Indian Settlement Act.
(d) The Reservation School Act.

3. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?
(a) Because they were scouts for the French.
(b) Because they were the most like white men.
(c) Because they were civilized.
(d) Because they had European contact.

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

5. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?
(a) Social services.
(b) Self-government.
(c) New schools.
(d) Social welfare.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Native American Church use in its sacramental worship life?

3. What did treaties initially do?

4. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?

5. What did Lake Superior hold that the government wanted?

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