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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the 1950s, where were the Indian Health Services transferred to?
(a) The Department of the Interior.
(b) The Department of Commerce.
(c) The Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
(d) The War Department.

2. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?
(a) They have not had their basic governmental forms disturbed.
(b) Their medical care is not as good as American Indians.
(c) They are paid by the government NOT to grow crops.
(d) They live in colder climates and have better housing.

3. Why, according to the author, do anthropologists never carry a writing instrument?
(a) Because the ink dries up in the sun.
(b) Because they would rather record than write for accuracy.
(c) Because they are afraid they will hurt a child with it.
(d) Because they already know what they are going to find.

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

5. Who was asked to testify before the Senate Civil Service Committee in 1947?
(a) Geronimo.
(b) William Zimmerman.
(c) Frank Wheeler.
(d) Sitting Bull.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?

2. What was the first concern of mission work on the reservation?

3. How do the Indians control social situations?

4. What did the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Minneapolis do in Tama, Iowa?

5. What, according to the author, is welfare designed to do?

(see the answer key)

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