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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?
(a) The National War Survivors of America.
(b) The National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Youth Council.
(c) The National Land Rights Owners.
(d) The National Water Rights of Indian Reservations.

2. Who was Arthur Watkins?
(a) President Truman's Chief of Staff.
(b) A poet who wrote about the Indian problems.
(c) A Mormon named as head the Indian subcommittees in the Senate and House.
(d) The chairman appointed to run the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

3. How many area offices does the Bureau of Indian Affairs have throughout the country?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 51.

4. Who is the prophet of peace on the Hopi reservation?
(a) Papovi Da.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) Geronimo.
(d) Thomas Banyaca.

5. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) WWII.
(c) The Spanish-American War.
(d) The Korean Conflict.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Billy Mills grow up?

2. What did treaties initially do?

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

4. What French rationalist did the House Interior Committee use as a basis for their study of Indian Affairs?

5. How long did the Indians have under the Wheeler-Howard Act to make a decision about their reservation?

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