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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?
(a) Self-government.
(b) New schools.
(c) Social welfare.
(d) Social services.

2. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?
(a) America tries to help other countries, but sometimes oversteps their boundaries.
(b) As a militantly imperialistic world power eagerly grasping for economic control over weaker nations.
(c) As neighbors and friends.
(d) America has always honored other nations, but not the Indians.

3. Why did the Oglala Sioux become a favorite subject for study by anthropologists?
(a) Because of the art history.
(b) Because of their unique way of life.
(c) Because of the vibrant present.
(d) Because of their romantic past.

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, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Horses.
(c) Gold.
(d) 135 million acres of land.

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

7. What does not overlap across state boundaries?
(a) Water.
(b) Treaty rights.
(c) Tribes.
(d) Buffalo.

8. What is the main problem for the Plains Indians?
(a) They have no water.
(b) An inadequate land base that continues to shrink because of land sales.
(c) They still want to go to war.
(d) They spend all day making eagle warbonnets.

9. What was Stewart Udall's explanation about why the Indians had not made progress like his friends in Arizona?
(a) They didn't have the management tools that IBM, General Motors, and Bell Telephone had.
(b) They didn't have the right kind of land, like in Arizona.
(c) They didn't have the money of big CEO's at large corporations.
(d) They didn't have the education needed for the task.

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

11. What French rationalist did the House Interior Committee use as a basis for their study of Indian Affairs?
(a) Blount Concur.
(b) Fred Callings.
(c) Rene Descartes.
(d) Mme. Frankser.

12. Who did missionaries believe the American Indians were when they connected their religion with the tribes they encountered?
(a) Russians.
(b) The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
(c) Mayans.
(d) The Spanish.

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

14. What other name is the Dawes Act known by?
(a) The Indian Referral Act.
(b) The Indian Ownership Act.
(c) The Peace Act.
(d) The Allotment Act.

15. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?
(a) Congress.
(b) The governor of Florida.
(c) Arthur Watkins.
(d) The D.A.R. or Daughters of the American Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act was passed by the American government in 1934?

2. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?

3. What has created a feeling of unity among American Indians?

4. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?

5. Why did the Klamath Bill have to be amended?

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