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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first concern of mission work on the reservation?
(a) Getting the Indians to come to church.
(b) Getting the Indians food.
(c) Land on which to build churches, homes, storehouses and other monuments.
(d) Getting clothing for the Indians.

2. Indians have come to rely on strong leaders and created what in turn?
(a) The hatred for Congress.
(b) The President complex.
(c) Indian Unity.
(d) The War Chief complex.

3. Why do anthropologists believe Indians drink?
(a) Because they have weak father figures.
(b) Because they are alcoholics.
(c) Because they are caught between two worlds.
(d) Because life on the reservation is like a party.

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

5. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?
(a) Nothing, it still exists.
(b) The government passed a new law in 1869 abolishing the treaty.
(c) The government built a dam, which flooded the major part of the Seneca reservation and the treaty was broken.
(d) The government gave the land away after the Civil War to former slaves.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does not overlap across state boundaries?

4. What is the twin of Indian unity?

5. What is one of the main beliefs of the Indians about their religion?

(see the answer key)

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