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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?
(a) Get them money as quickly as possible.
(b) Get rid of them as quickly as possible.
(c) Get them health care as quickly as possible.
(d) Get their land as quickly as possible.

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

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

5. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?
(a) Paternalism.
(b) Fairness.
(c) Greed.
(d) Racism.

6. 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. Menominees.
(d) United States v. Chippewa.

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

8. 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 money of big CEO's at large corporations.
(b) They didn't have the education needed for the task.
(c) They didn't have the right kind of land, like in Arizona.
(d) They didn't have the management tools that IBM, General Motors, and Bell Telephone had.

9. What "first" did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 enact?
(a) The first time land was returned to the Indians.
(b) The first time water was sold by the Indians.
(c) The first clear-cut case of fraudulent dealings on part of Congress.
(d) The first time land was sold by the Indians.

10. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?
(a) The National Water Rights of Indian Reservations.
(b) The National Land Rights Owners.
(c) The National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Youth Council.
(d) The National War Survivors of America.

11. When does the author believe was the last time that true democracy was alive among Indian tribes?
(a) 1885.
(b) Pre-Columbian days.
(c) 1756.
(d) The 1960s.

12. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?
(a) The Wheeler-Howard act was not accomplishing the task of bringing the Indian people up to the level of their white neighbors.
(b) The Wheeler-Howard act was a success.
(c) The Wheeler-Howard act needed an amendment for money to build new schools.
(d) The Wheeler-Howard act was working well.

13. What year did the Congressional policy of termination begin?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1934.

14. What kind of people do anthropologists believe the Indians are?
(a) A white people.
(b) A native people.
(c) A folk people.
(d) A foreign people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fundamental thesis of the anthropologist?

2. What political aspirations did the Seneca's accuse the government of having regarding the oldest Indian treaty?

3. What other name is the Dawes Act known by?

4. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?

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

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