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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they live in an area where there is no work.
(b) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their water rights.
(c) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their hunting rights.
(d) Because they do not work.

2. In the minds of most Indians, what is the best way to eradicate a species?
(a) Authorize Stewart Udall to conserve it.
(b) Hand it over to the care of the Interior Department.
(c) Let white America care for it.
(d) Put it in the care of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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

4. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?
(a) Get them health care as quickly as possible.
(b) Get rid of them as quickly as possible.
(c) Get them money as quickly as possible.
(d) Get their land as quickly as possible.

5. Once a church was assigned to a reservation, what happened to the other churches?
(a) Other churches could talk to members of the reservation to try to gain access.
(b) They were prohibited from entering a reservation.
(c) Other churches could invite Indians to worship on their reservation.
(d) They could also build a church on the same reservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Arthur Watkins?

2. What is regarded as utter hypocrisy by the Indian people?

3. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?

4. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?

5. Who does the area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Aberdeen, South Dakota serve?

(see the answer key)

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