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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?
(a) White America.
(b) The United States Government.
(c) The Reorganization Act.
(d) The Indians.

2. What Department was the Bureau of Indian Affairs transferred to when it opened in 1849?
(a) The Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
(b) The War Department.
(c) The Department of Commerce.
(d) The Department of the Interior.

3. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?
(a) The tribes could jail them.
(b) The tribes could banish them.
(c) The tribes could call for government back-up.
(d) The tribes could punish them.

4. What is regarded as utter hypocrisy by the Indian people?
(a) The government caring about the Indian People.
(b) The attempt of churches to appear relevant to the social needs of the 1960's.
(c) Anthopologists caring about the Indian People.
(d) White Americans caring about the Indian People.

5. In 1964, what percentage of Indian thought the United States should get out of America?
(a) 15 percent.
(b) 10 percent.
(c) 90 percent.
(d) 85 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of Christian missions on the reservations?

2. What important work has the American Indian Historical Society of San Francisco done?

3. Like the missionaries, what have anthropologists become intolerably certain of?

4. What is the best service offered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs area offices?

5. What did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?

(see the answer key)

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