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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?
(a) Congress.
(b) Arthur Watkins.
(c) The governor of Florida.
(d) The D.A.R. or Daughters of the American Revolution.

2. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?
(a) Gold.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Horses.
(d) 135 million acres of land.

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

4. Who appointed Dillon Myer as Commissioner of Indian Affairs?
(a) President Roosevelt.
(b) President Truman.
(c) President Eisenhower.
(d) President Nixon.

5. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?
(a) That the tribes had titles of ownership to all land.
(b) That the tribes could give their land away if they wished.
(c) That the tribes rent land from the government.
(d) That the tribes have no title to the land at all, only occupancy rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?

2. What is the fundamental thesis of the anthropologist?

3. Why did the Klamath Bill have to be amended?

4. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?

5. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?

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