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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reputation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Juneau?
(a) It has the best reputation for service to native peoples of any of the area offices.
(b) It holds fast to fishing rights.
(c) It is run by white men.
(d) It is representative of the people it serves.

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

3. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?
(a) As the first foreign wars of American history.
(b) Not as wars.
(c) As Civil Wars.
(d) As conflicts, not wars.

4. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?
(a) That the tribes rent land from the government.
(b) That the tribes could give their land away if they wished.
(c) That the tribes had titles of ownership to all land.
(d) That the tribes have no title to the land at all, only occupancy rights.

5. How much was the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin awarded?
(a) $2 million.
(b) $6 million.
(c) $500 thousand.
(d) $1.5 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, according to the author, do anthropologists never carry a writing instrument?

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

3. What, according to many Indians, is the culture of the white man?

4. Once a church was assigned to a reservation, what happened to the other churches?

5. What "Civilized" Tribe is among the poorest people in America?

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