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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the new immigrants do to organize themselves in their new land?
(a) They asked the Indians for help.
(b) They borrowed from Indian culture and myth to build their basis of laws.
(c) They learned Indian art.
(d) They transplanted European social and political systems.

2. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?
(a) A series on Davy Crockett.
(b) A series on Kennedy.
(c) A series on Lewis and Clark.
(d) A series on Custer.

3. What political aspirations did the Seneca's accuse the government of having regarding the oldest Indian treaty?
(a) Senator Kennedy wanted to buy the land for his own family.
(b) President Kennedy needed the land to bargain with the Russians during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(c) President Kennedy wanted to add the land to Camp David.
(d) The dam was part of the price of keeping Pennsylvania in line for John F. Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic Convention.

4. In the minds of most Indians, what is the best way to eradicate a species?
(a) Let white America care for it.
(b) Put it in the care of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(c) Authorize Stewart Udall to conserve it.
(d) Hand it over to the care of the Interior Department.

5. Under what umbrella did the Bureau of Indian Affairs begin?
(a) The Peace Department.
(b) The Interior Department.
(c) The War Department.
(d) The Senate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main problem for the Plains Indians?

2. Who is Frank Takes Gun?

3. What happened over time to young Indian men who wanted to enter the ministry?

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

5. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?

(see the answer key)

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