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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1964, what percentage of Indian thought the United States should get out of America?
(a) 85 percent.
(b) 90 percent.
(c) 15 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

2. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?
(a) Fishing and Gaming rights.
(b) Herding rights.
(c) Hunting and water rights.
(d) National Park rights.

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

4. Like the missionaries, what have anthropologists become intolerably certain of?
(a) That they need more time with Indians.
(b) That they need more study of American Indians.
(c) That they know the ultimate truth.
(d) That they know very little about Indians.

5. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?
(a) Interpreted an ancient statute in favor of blacks in the matter of purchasing a house.
(b) It drained a dam and gave Indians back land on the east coast.
(c) It ruled in favor of water rights for African Americans.
(d) It ruled in favor of urban development for Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the author, is the problem with the white man's economic system?

2. What act was passed by the American government in 1934?

3. When the buffalo were gone, what did the Sioux eat to keep from starving?

4. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?

5. What favorite hymn surprised old warriors in church?

(see the answer key)

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