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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?
(a) The Sioux.
(b) The Senecas.
(c) The Cherokees.
(d) The Kiowa.

2. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?
(a) Their grandfathers.
(b) Their grandmother's.
(c) Their uncle's.
(d) Their aunt's.

3. What, according to the joke, is a peace treaty?
(a) "When a white man want a piece of you."
(b) "When a white man wants a piece of your land."
(c) "When a white man wants a piece of your mind."
(d) "When a white man wants pieces of your soul."

4. What phrases does Mr. Farb continue to use when talking about Indians?
(a) Test tubes and living laboratories.
(b) Inferior.
(c) Stupid and slow.
(d) Below standard.

5. 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 wanted to add the land to Camp David.
(c) The dam was part of the price of keeping Pennsylvania in line for John F. Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic Convention.
(d) President Kennedy needed the land to bargain with the Russians during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Sitting Bull in his later years?

2. What other name is the Wheeler-Howard Act known by?

3. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?

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

5. What is the highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?

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