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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 the first foreign wars of American history.
(b) As Civil Wars.
(c) Not as wars.
(d) As conflicts, not wars.

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

3. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their hunting rights.
(b) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their water rights.
(c) Because they live in an area where there is no work.
(d) Because they do not work.

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

5. 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 move again and give up more land.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?

2. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?

3. When does the author believe was the last time that true democracy was alive among Indian tribes?

4. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?

5. When Watkins visited the Menominee, what did he compare the living conditions to?

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