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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?
(a) They gave back hunting and fishing rights on their land.
(b) They gave them new schools and built new roads.
(c) They received a judgement against the U.S. for $2.6 million, but nneded enabling legislation to spend it.
(d) They offered to accept their tribal marriages.

3. When whites claim Indian heritage, who do they believe was their ancestor?
(a) Pocahontas.
(b) Lewis and Clark.
(c) An Indian Princess.
(d) George Washington.

4. Who was asked to testify before the Senate Civil Service Committee in 1947?
(a) William Zimmerman.
(b) Geronimo.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) Frank Wheeler.

5. How many tribal communities get federal services?
(a) 30.
(b) Thousands.
(c) 10.
(d) Hundreds.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, for those whites who do not claim Indian heritage, what asset do they have that connects them with American Indians?

2. What did treaties initially do?

3. Why, according to the author, do anthropologists never carry a writing instrument?

4. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?

5. What French rationalist did the House Interior Committee use as a basis for their study of Indian Affairs?

(see the answer key)

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