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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6. 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 War Survivors of America.
(d) The National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Youth Council.

7. According to the author, for those whites who do not claim Indian heritage, what asset do they have that connects them with American Indians?
(a) They donate to Indian colleges.
(b) They understand Indians.
(c) They ARE Indians.
(d) They have friends who are Indians.

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

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

10. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?
(a) The government gave the land away after the Civil War to former slaves.
(b) Nothing, it still exists.
(c) The government passed a new law in 1869 abolishing the treaty.
(d) The government built a dam, which flooded the major part of the Seneca reservation and the treaty was broken.

11. 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 pay state taxes, but refuse to pay federal taxes.
(d) They feel, like other Americans, that they must pay taxes that are due.

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

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

14. Who signed the original treaties with the Northwest Coast American Indians?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Isaac Stevens.
(d) George Bush.

15. What, according to the author, did the death of President Kennedy and Sitting Bull have in common?
(a) Both were political assassinations.
(b) Both were acts of terrorism.
(c) Both were done by the same person.
(d) Both were a threat to our society as Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?

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

3. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?

4. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?

5. What provision did Watkins attach to the bill for the Menominee distribution of judgment money?

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