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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other name is the Dawes Act known by?
(a) The Allotment Act.
(b) The Indian Ownership Act.
(c) The Peace Act.
(d) The Indian Referral Act.

2. Who is the prophet of peace on the Hopi reservation?
(a) Sitting Bull.
(b) Thomas Banyaca.
(c) Geronimo.
(d) Papovi Da.

3. What did the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Minneapolis do in Tama, Iowa?
(a) They abruptly closed the grade school.
(b) They combined the school in Tama with one in Great Falls.
(c) They built a school with no road to it.
(d) They moved all the reservations in the area to the Tama, Iowa school.

4. What "Civilized" Tribe is among the poorest people in America?
(a) The Cherokee.
(b) The Choctaw.
(c) The Zuni.
(d) The Apache.

5. What was the first concern of mission work on the reservation?
(a) Getting clothing for the Indians.
(b) Land on which to build churches, homes, storehouses and other monuments.
(c) Getting the Indians to come to church.
(d) Getting the Indians food.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?

2. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?

3. What is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?

4. What did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?

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

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