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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author suggest that each anthropologist should have to do in order to study a tribe?
(a) He must apply to a tribal committee.
(b) He must donate an equal amount of money to the tribe that he spent on the study.
(c) He must apply through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(d) He must get on a waiting list and be approved by the tribe he wishes to visit.

3. What was one emphasis outlined in the Termination Act?
(a) For the state to play no role in termination.
(b) For the state to assume responsibility for the tribes and its members.
(c) For the state governor to oversee the Indians.
(d) For the state Senate to rule over the Indians.

4. What does an anthropologist come to the reservation to do?
(a) Make observations.
(b) Write down everything they see.
(c) Enjoy the food.
(d) Help the Indians with a building project.

5. What have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?
(a) Elect their own president.
(b) Band together.
(c) Start a national newspaper.
(d) Elect their own congress.

6. Who was Arthur Watkins?
(a) A Mormon named as head the Indian subcommittees in the Senate and House.
(b) A poet who wrote about the Indian problems.
(c) President Truman's Chief of Staff.
(d) The chairman appointed to run the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

7. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?
(a) That the tribes rent land from the government.
(b) That the tribes could give their land away if they wished.
(c) That the tribes have no title to the land at all, only occupancy rights.
(d) That the tribes had titles of ownership to all land.

8. What happened to most of the treaties in the far west of the country?
(a) The written documents never made it back to Washington.
(b) They were never ratified by Congress.
(c) They were never broken and followed carefully.
(d) The field offices lost the written documents years ago.

9. 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.

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

11. 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) The Indians would have to move again and give up more land.
(d) There was a one year delay on all services while the tribe voted.

12. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?
(a) They received a judgement against the U.S. for $2.6 million, but nneded enabling legislation to spend it.
(b) They gave them new schools and built new roads.
(c) They gave back hunting and fishing rights on their land.
(d) They offered to accept their tribal marriages.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?

2. What, according to the author, did the death of President Kennedy and Sitting Bull have in common?

3. What year did the Congressional policy of termination begin?

4. How are young Indians connected to anthropologists?

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

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