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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under what presidential administration did the policy of Relocation begin?
(a) Truman.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Eisenhower.

2. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?
(a) Racism.
(b) Greed.
(c) Fairness.
(d) Paternalism.

3. How is the top job in the Bureau of Indian Affairs filled?
(a) The Senate picks the person.
(b) The House picks the person.
(c) The person is voted in by the Indians.
(d) By appointment.

4. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their hunting rights.
(b) Because they live in an area where there is no work.
(c) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their water rights.
(d) Because they do not work.

5. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?
(a) As the first foreign wars of American history.
(b) As conflicts, not wars.
(c) Not as wars.
(d) As Civil Wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Klamath Bill have to be amended?

2. What treaty did John F. Kennedy break?

3. What did the new immigrants do to organize themselves in their new land?

4. Why do Indians exhaust more leaders every year than any other minority group?

5. In 1966, what did the secret Presidential Task Force recommend doing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

(see the answer key)

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