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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author believe anthropologists should do in the future?
(a) Start writing everything down.
(b) Learn the art of the Indians and give up anthropology.
(c) Stop worrying about publishing and live among the Indians.
(d) Stop researching and preying on the Indian, and start helping.

2. What "Civilized" Tribe is among the poorest people in America?
(a) The Apache.
(b) The Zuni.
(c) The Choctaw.
(d) The Cherokee.

3. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?
(a) That the cherokee Nation could not hold any treaty with any foreign power.
(b) That the Cherokee Nation could not become French citizens.
(c) That the Cherokee Nation could not marry foreigners.
(d) That the Cherokee Nation could not take money from foreign powers.

4. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?
(a) Once a reservation voted against the acceptance of the provisions of the act, they were forbidden from considering it again.
(b) The Indians would have to give up hunting rights.
(c) There was a one year delay on all services while the tribe voted.
(d) The Indians would have to move again and give up more land.

5. What was the survey of 1086 called?
(a) The Peasant Survey.
(b) The Middle Ages Survey.
(c) The Domesday Survey.
(d) The Century Survey.

6. What act was passed by the American government in 1934?
(a) The Reservation School Act.
(b) The Indian Settlement Act.
(c) The Indian Reorganization Act.
(d) The American Indian Poverty Act.

7. What is the purpose of the Oklahoma Original Cherokee Community Organization?
(a) Defending marriages on the Cherokee Reservation performed by Native American Ministers.
(b) Defending school financing on the Cherokee Reservation.
(c) Defending hunting and treaty rights of the Cherokee.
(d) Defending water rights for the Cherokee Nation.

8. What had Dillon Myer been in charge of during World War II?
(a) The attack on Tokyo.
(b) The Manhattan Project.
(c) Pearl Harbor security.
(d) Japanese internment camps.

9. What is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?
(a) United States v. Menominees.
(b) United States v. Chippewa.
(c) United States v. Winans.
(d) United States v. Zimmerman.

10. What provision did Watkins attach to the bill for the Menominee distribution of judgment money?
(a) A provision for hunting rights.
(b) A provision for water rights.
(c) A provision for mineral rights.
(d) A provision of termination.

11. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?
(a) The United States Government.
(b) White America.
(c) The Reorganization Act.
(d) The Indians.

12. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?
(a) You get to live on a reservation.
(b) It is lucrative to be an American Indian.
(c) People like you on sight.
(d) People are always interested in your "plight."

13. What did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?
(a) Two thousand dollars.
(b) A million dollars.
(c) One hundred and forty thousand dollars.
(d) Two hundred dollars.

14. What important work has the American Indian Historical Society of San Francisco done?
(a) Published the finest contemporary material on Indians.
(b) Gathered a full history of the American Indian in California.
(c) Fought to establish the San Francisco Indian Reservation System.
(d) Lectured across the country in colleges and universities about American Indians.

15. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?
(a) The Dawes Treaty.
(b) The Church Treaty.
(c) The Pickering Treaty.
(d) The Allotment Treaty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of hats to anthropologists wear?

2. How are young Indians connected to anthropologists?

3. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?

4. What was one emphasis outlined in the Termination Act?

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

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