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

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) Japanese internment camps.
(d) Pearl Harbor security.

2. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?
(a) The Indians would have to move again and give up more land.
(b) Once a reservation voted against the acceptance of the provisions of the act, they were forbidden from considering it again.
(c) The Indians would have to give up hunting rights.
(d) There was a one year delay on all services while the tribe voted.

3. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?
(a) To combine them with tribes in Oklahoma.
(b) To move them to Missouri.
(c) Better to have them expire as private citizens than let anyone know how badly they had been treated.
(d) To get them better hospitals and roads.

4. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?
(a) They live in colder climates and have better housing.
(b) They are paid by the government NOT to grow crops.
(c) Their medical care is not as good as American Indians.
(d) They have not had their basic governmental forms disturbed.

5. How does the Native American Church view death?
(a) As a warning from God.
(b) As a natural occurrence and not a special punishment.
(c) As a symbol of peace.
(d) As a punishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of people do anthropologists believe the Indians are?

2. What did Indians joke about when asked what the country was called before "America?"

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

4. As stated in Part 8, what must the white man do before he can relate to others?

5. What was the result of Christian missions on the reservations?

(see the answer key)

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