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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?
(a) Establish a cultural inclusion policy.
(b) Establish a cultural leave-us-alone agreement.
(c) Begin talks with the federal government on land rights.
(d) Pass laws removing all federal government from Indian proceedings.

2. What was Stewart Udall's explanation about why the Indians had not made progress like his friends in Arizona?
(a) They didn't have the management tools that IBM, General Motors, and Bell Telephone had.
(b) They didn't have the right kind of land, like in Arizona.
(c) They didn't have the money of big CEO's at large corporations.
(d) They didn't have the education needed for the task.

3. What have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?
(a) Elect their own president.
(b) Start a national newspaper.
(c) Elect their own congress.
(d) Band together.

4. When Indians looked at pictures of the Disciples, what were they surprised to find?
(a) Their brown faces.
(b) Their shoulder-length hair.
(c) Their short hair.
(d) Their white faces.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?

2. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?

3. Among the Sioux in the Dakotas, what was the Sun Dance reinterpreted as?

4. What was the survey of 1086 called?

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

(see the answer key)

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