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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?
(a) As conflicts, not wars.
(b) As the first foreign wars of American history.
(c) Not as wars.
(d) As Civil Wars.

2. What did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?
(a) One hundred and forty thousand dollars.
(b) A million dollars.
(c) Two hundred dollars.
(d) Two thousand dollars.

3. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?
(a) You get to live on a reservation.
(b) People like you on sight.
(c) People are always interested in your "plight."
(d) It is lucrative to be an American Indian.

4. Like the missionaries, what have anthropologists become intolerably certain of?
(a) That they know the ultimate truth.
(b) That they know very little about Indians.
(c) That they need more time with Indians.
(d) That they need more study of American Indians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?

2. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?

3. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?

4. What was the survey of 1086 called?

5. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?

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