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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?
(a) Herding rights.
(b) Fishing and Gaming rights.
(c) National Park rights.
(d) Hunting and water rights.

2. When does the author believe was the last time that true democracy was alive among Indian tribes?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) Pre-Columbian days.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1756.

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

4. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?
(a) As neighbors and friends.
(b) America has always honored other nations, but not the Indians.
(c) As a militantly imperialistic world power eagerly grasping for economic control over weaker nations.
(d) America tries to help other countries, but sometimes oversteps their boundaries.

5. Who was Arthur Watkins?
(a) A Mormon named as head the Indian subcommittees in the Senate and House.
(b) President Truman's Chief of Staff.
(c) The chairman appointed to run the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(d) A poet who wrote about the Indian problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did missionaries believe the American Indians were when they connected their religion with the tribes they encountered?

2. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?

3. What was the survey of 1086 called?

4. Which group of Indians did Arthur Watkins target first in his work for the government?

5. What year did the United States clear the eastern states of the former Indian allies?

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