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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?
(a) 135 million acres of land.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Horses.
(d) Gold.

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

4. 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.

5. What year did the United States clear the eastern states of the former Indian allies?
(a) 2010.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1886.
(d) 1934.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?

2. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?

3. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?

4. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?

5. Who signed the original treaties with the Northwest Coast American Indians?

(see the answer key)

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