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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?
(a) There was a one year delay on all services while the tribe voted.
(b) The Indians would have to give up hunting rights.
(c) The Indians would have to move again and give up more land.
(d) Once a reservation voted against the acceptance of the provisions of the act, they were forbidden from considering it again.

2. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?
(a) The National Land Rights Owners.
(b) The National War Survivors of America.
(c) The National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Youth Council.
(d) The National Water Rights of Indian Reservations.

3. What political aspirations did the Seneca's accuse the government of having regarding the oldest Indian treaty?
(a) President Kennedy needed the land to bargain with the Russians during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(b) Senator Kennedy wanted to buy the land for his own family.
(c) The dam was part of the price of keeping Pennsylvania in line for John F. Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic Convention.
(d) President Kennedy wanted to add the land to Camp David.

4. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?
(a) The Indian Bureau should be abolished.
(b) All land should be taken from Indians.
(c) Indians should be compensated for land loss.
(d) Indians should be abolished.

5. Who did missionaries believe the American Indians were when they connected their religion with the tribes they encountered?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) Russians.
(c) Mayans.
(d) The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?

2. How many tribal communities get federal services?

3. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?

4. What does not overlap across state boundaries?

5. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?

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