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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author believe anthropologists should do in the future?
(a) Stop worrying about publishing and live among the Indians.
(b) Learn the art of the Indians and give up anthropology.
(c) Stop researching and preying on the Indian, and start helping.
(d) Start writing everything down.

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

3. What year did the Congressional policy of termination begin?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1880.

4. What was the survey of 1086 called?
(a) The Century Survey.
(b) The Middle Ages Survey.
(c) The Domesday Survey.
(d) The Peasant Survey.

5. Why do anthropologists believe Indians drink?
(a) Because life on the reservation is like a party.
(b) Because they are alcoholics.
(c) Because they are caught between two worlds.
(d) Because they have weak father figures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?

2. Who appointed Dillon Myer as Commissioner of Indian Affairs?

3. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?

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

5. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?

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