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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the author believe was the last time that true democracy was alive among Indian tribes?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) Pre-Columbian days.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1756.

2. What important work has the American Indian Historical Society of San Francisco done?
(a) Published the finest contemporary material on Indians.
(b) Fought to establish the San Francisco Indian Reservation System.
(c) Lectured across the country in colleges and universities about American Indians.
(d) Gathered a full history of the American Indian in California.

3. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?
(a) The National Land Rights Owners.
(b) The National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Youth Council.
(c) The National Water Rights of Indian Reservations.
(d) The National War Survivors of America.

4. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?
(a) The Korean Conflict.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) WWII.
(d) The Spanish-American War.

5. What was Stewart Udall's explanation about why the Indians had not made progress like his friends in Arizona?
(a) They didn't have the right kind of land, like in Arizona.
(b) They didn't have the education needed for the task.
(c) They didn't have the money of big CEO's at large corporations.
(d) They didn't have the management tools that IBM, General Motors, and Bell Telephone had.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does not overlap across state boundaries?

2. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?

3. What did Lake Superior hold that the government wanted?

4. In the minds of most Indians, what is the best way to eradicate a species?

5. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?

(see the answer key)

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