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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?
(a) They are paid by the government NOT to grow crops.
(b) They have not had their basic governmental forms disturbed.
(c) They live in colder climates and have better housing.
(d) Their medical care is not as good as American Indians.

2. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?
(a) The government passed a new law in 1869 abolishing the treaty.
(b) The government gave the land away after the Civil War to former slaves.
(c) Nothing, it still exists.
(d) The government built a dam, which flooded the major part of the Seneca reservation and the treaty was broken.

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

4. What was the Senate Interior Committee afraid of after the passage of the Wheeler-Howard act?
(a) They were afraid of the Civil Rights Movement.
(b) They were afraid of Indian unity.
(c) They were afraid the French would want the land back.
(d) They were afraid of foreign influences.

5. What had Dillon Myer been in charge of during World War II?
(a) Pearl Harbor security.
(b) Japanese internment camps.
(c) The Manhattan Project.
(d) The attack on Tokyo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an anthropologist come to the reservation to do?

2. When whites claim Indian heritage, who do they believe was their ancestor?

3. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?

4. What political aspirations did the Seneca's accuse the government of having regarding the oldest Indian treaty?

5. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?

(see the answer key)

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