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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?
(a) That the tribes rent land from the government.
(b) That the tribes could give their land away if they wished.
(c) That the tribes had titles of ownership to all land.
(d) That the tribes have no title to the land at all, only occupancy rights.

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

3. What did the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Minneapolis do in Tama, Iowa?
(a) They built a school with no road to it.
(b) They moved all the reservations in the area to the Tama, Iowa school.
(c) They combined the school in Tama with one in Great Falls.
(d) They abruptly closed the grade school.

4. What, according to the author, is the problem with the white man's economic system?
(a) It is based on the stock market.
(b) It is not real.
(c) It is separate from European and Japanese markets.
(d) It is not based on the world economy.

5. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?
(a) That the Cherokee Nation could not marry foreigners.
(b) That the Cherokee Nation could not take money from foreign powers.
(c) That the cherokee Nation could not hold any treaty with any foreign power.
(d) That the Cherokee Nation could not become French citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1964, what percentage of Indians thought the United States should get out of Vietnam?

2. In 1964, what percentage of Indian thought the United States should get out of America?

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

4. What happened during World War II on reservations?

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

(see the answer key)

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