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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?
(a) With government intervention.
(b) With new rules established by white men.
(c) With outside help.
(d) In traditional Indian fashion.

2. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?
(a) Indians should be compensated for land loss.
(b) All land should be taken from Indians.
(c) The Indian Bureau should be abolished.
(d) Indians should be abolished.

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

4. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?
(a) They feel they owe taxes.
(b) They feel they paid when they gave up two billion acres of land to the U.S.
(c) They feel, like other Americans, that they must pay taxes that are due.
(d) They pay state taxes, but refuse to pay federal taxes.

5. What did treaties initially do?
(a) They divided the church territories.
(b) They marked the boundaries between the lands of the Indian nations and the U.S.
(c) They helped establish state lines.
(d) They promised ownership of land that still belonged to the French.

6. What has created a feeling of unity among American Indians?
(a) Need for social services.
(b) The betrayal of treaty promises.
(c) The Native American College system.
(d) Brotherhood with a similar history.

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

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

9. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?
(a) Hunting and water rights.
(b) Herding rights.
(c) National Park rights.
(d) Fishing and Gaming rights.

10. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?
(a) The Indians would have to give up hunting rights.
(b) Once a reservation voted against the acceptance of the provisions of the act, they were forbidden from considering it again.
(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.

11. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?
(a) Their medical care is not as good as American Indians.
(b) They have not had their basic governmental forms disturbed.
(c) They are paid by the government NOT to grow crops.
(d) They live in colder climates and have better housing.

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

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

14. How long did the Indians have under the Wheeler-Howard Act to make a decision about their reservation?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 9 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 10 years.

15. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they live in an area where there is no work.
(b) Because they do not 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. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?

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

3. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?

4. What kind of people do anthropologists believe the Indians are?

5. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?

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