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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under what presidential administration did the policy of Relocation begin?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Truman.

2. What did Senator Clinton Anderson announce in 1968?
(a) That the federal government should support only those Indians living in urban areas.
(b) That the federal government needed to close the reservations.
(c) That the federal government needed to spend more money on the Indian.
(d) That the federal government was spending nearly half a billion dollars a year on Indian people and therefore he did not think they were so neglected.

3. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?
(a) They feel they owe taxes.
(b) They feel they paid when they gave up two billion acres of land to the U.S.
(c) They feel, like other Americans, that they must pay taxes that are due.
(d) They pay state taxes, but refuse to pay federal taxes.

4. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?
(a) They received a judgement against the U.S. for $2.6 million, but nneded enabling legislation to spend it.
(b) They gave back hunting and fishing rights on their land.
(c) They offered to accept their tribal marriages.
(d) They gave them new schools and built new roads.

5. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?
(a) It ruled in favor of water rights for African Americans.
(b) It drained a dam and gave Indians back land on the east coast.
(c) It ruled in favor of urban development for Indians.
(d) Interpreted an ancient statute in favor of blacks in the matter of purchasing a house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the Indians control social situations?

3. What provides keen insight into a group's collective psyche?

4. What is the joke about the Bureau of Indian Affairs area office in Portland?

5. What is the Aberdeen office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs known for?

(see the answer key)

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