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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?
(a) People like you on sight.
(b) It is lucrative to be an American Indian.
(c) People are always interested in your "plight."
(d) You get to live on a reservation.

2. According to the author, where should the Bureau of Indian Affairs be transferred?
(a) To the Interior Department.
(b) To the War Department.
(c) To the Commerce Department.
(d) To the Foreign Service Department.

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

4. What other name is the Wheeler-Howard Act known by?
(a) The Indian Encampment Act.
(b) The Cavalry Act.
(c) The Howard- Wheeler Act.
(d) The Reorganization Act of 1934.

5. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?
(a) Self-government.
(b) New schools.
(c) Social services.
(d) Social welfare.

Short Answer Questions

1. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?

2. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?

3. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?

4. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?

5. What is regarded as utter hypocrisy by the Indian people?

(see the answer key)

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