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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Dillon Myer been in charge of during World War II?
(a) The attack on Tokyo.
(b) The Manhattan Project.
(c) Pearl Harbor security.
(d) Japanese internment camps.

2. What did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?
(a) One hundred and forty thousand dollars.
(b) Two hundred dollars.
(c) A million dollars.
(d) Two thousand dollars.

3. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?
(a) The tribes could jail them.
(b) The tribes could banish them.
(c) The tribes could call for government back-up.
(d) The tribes could punish them.

4. When whites claim Indian heritage, who do they believe was their ancestor?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Pocahontas.
(c) Lewis and Clark.
(d) An Indian Princess.

5. What does an anthropologist come to the reservation to do?
(a) Enjoy the food.
(b) Help the Indians with a building project.
(c) Write down everything they see.
(d) Make observations.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, where should the Bureau of Indian Affairs be transferred?

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

3. How is the top job in the Bureau of Indian Affairs filled?

4. What does the author suggest that each anthropologist should have to do in order to study a tribe?

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

(see the answer key)

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