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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of hats to anthropologists wear?
(a) Straw hats.
(b) Indian warbonnets.
(c) Australian bush hats.
(d) Baseball caps.

4. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?
(a) To combine them with tribes in Oklahoma.
(b) To get them better hospitals and roads.
(c) Better to have them expire as private citizens than let anyone know how badly they had been treated.
(d) To move them to Missouri.

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

6. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?
(a) As conflicts, not wars.
(b) Not as wars.
(c) As Civil Wars.
(d) As the first foreign wars of American history.

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

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

9. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) WWII.
(c) The Spanish-American War.
(d) The Korean Conflict.

10. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?
(a) Begin talks with the federal government on land rights.
(b) Establish a cultural leave-us-alone agreement.
(c) Establish a cultural inclusion policy.
(d) Pass laws removing all federal government from Indian proceedings.

11. What is the fundamental thesis of the anthropologist?
(a) That people are human and have a range of emotions.
(b) That people are lost in this world and need saving.
(c) That people are different and deserve study.
(d) That people are objects for observation.

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

13. Why do anthropologists believe Indians drink?
(a) Because they have weak father figures.
(b) Because they are caught between two worlds.
(c) Because life on the reservation is like a party.
(d) Because they are alcoholics.

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

15. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they do not work.
(b) Because they live in an area where there is no work.
(c) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their hunting rights.
(d) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their water rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Watkins visited the Menominee, what did he compare the living conditions to?

2. How long did the Indians have under the Wheeler-Howard Act to make a decision about their reservation?

3. Who was asked to testify before the Senate Civil Service Committee in 1947?

4. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?

5. Like the missionaries, what have anthropologists become intolerably certain of?

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