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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of groups, according to the author, do people have little sympathy for?
(a) Stolid groups.
(b) Funny groups.
(c) Polite groups.
(d) Rude groups.

2. What happened to most of the treaties in the far west of the country?
(a) The written documents never made it back to Washington.
(b) They were never ratified by Congress.
(c) They were never broken and followed carefully.
(d) The field offices lost the written documents years ago.

3. Who signed the original treaties with the Northwest Coast American Indians?
(a) George Bush.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Isaac Stevens.

4. Which group of Indians did Arthur Watkins target first in his work for the government?
(a) Indians east of the Mississippi.
(b) Southwest Indians.
(c) Indians in his home state of Utah.
(d) The Cheyenne.

5. What did Billy Mills do?
(a) He was a pole vaulter at the Olympics.
(b) He won the ten thousand meter run at the Olympics.
(c) He became the first Indian astronaut.
(d) He became the first Indian Senator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?

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

3. What did Indians joke about when asked what the country was called before "America?"

4. What did the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Minneapolis do in Tama, Iowa?

5. How much was the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin awarded?

(see the answer key)

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