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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did the Indians have under the Wheeler-Howard Act to make a decision about their reservation?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 1 year.

2. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they live in an area where there is no work.
(b) Because they do not work.
(c) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their water rights.
(d) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their hunting rights.

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

4. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?
(a) That the state would be more efficient than the Federal Government in caring for them.
(b) The Indians would be better off on their own, without government involvement.
(c) The Indians want to control their own destiny.
(d) The Indians should become Christian.

5. What has created a feeling of unity among American Indians?
(a) The Native American College system.
(b) Need for social services.
(c) Brotherhood with a similar history.
(d) The betrayal of treaty promises.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?

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

3. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?

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

5. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?

(see the answer key)

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