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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fundamental thesis of the anthropologist?
(a) That people are lost in this world and need saving.
(b) That people are human and have a range of emotions.
(c) That people are different and deserve study.
(d) That people are objects for observation.

2. Who appointed Dillon Myer as Commissioner of Indian Affairs?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) President Nixon.
(c) President Roosevelt.
(d) President Truman.

3. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?
(a) The Indian Bureau should be abolished.
(b) Indians should be abolished.
(c) Indians should be compensated for land loss.
(d) All land should be taken from Indians.

4. 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) Gathered a full history of the American Indian in California.
(d) Lectured across the country in colleges and universities about American Indians.

5. Why, according to the author, do anthropologists never carry a writing instrument?
(a) Because they already know what they are going to find.
(b) Because the ink dries up in the sun.
(c) Because they would rather record than write for accuracy.
(d) Because they are afraid they will hurt a child with it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?

2. Who are the Five Civilized Tribes?

3. Why did the Oglala Sioux become a favorite subject for study by anthropologists?

4. Who was Arthur Watkins?

5. What is one of the main beliefs of the Indians about their religion?

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