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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?
(a) The League of American Indian Voters.
(b) The League of Nations, Pan American Indians.
(c) The Native American Baseball League.
(d) The Women's American Indian League.

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

3. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?
(a) That Indian tribes had great schools.
(b) That Indian tribes were flourishing.
(c) That Indian tribes were in the final stages of demise.
(d) That Indian tribes were unifying.

4. How much was the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin awarded?
(a) $2 million.
(b) $500 thousand.
(c) $6 million.
(d) $1.5 million.

5. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?
(a) Paternalism.
(b) Racism.
(c) Fairness.
(d) Greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?

2. What does not overlap across state boundaries?

3. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?

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

5. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?

(see the answer key)

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