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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?
(a) Greed.
(b) Fairness.
(c) Paternalism.
(d) Racism.
2. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?
(a) The Allotment Treaty.
(b) The Pickering Treaty.
(c) The Church Treaty.
(d) The Dawes Treaty.
3. What is regarded as utter hypocrisy by the Indian people?
(a) The attempt of churches to appear relevant to the social needs of the 1960's.
(b) White Americans caring about the Indian People.
(c) Anthopologists caring about the Indian People.
(d) The government caring about the Indian People.
4. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?
(a) Pass laws removing all federal government from Indian proceedings.
(b) Establish a cultural leave-us-alone agreement.
(c) Begin talks with the federal government on land rights.
(d) Establish a cultural inclusion policy.
5. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?
(a) As conflicts, not wars.
(b) As the first foreign wars of American history.
(c) As Civil Wars.
(d) Not as wars.
6. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?
(a) Gold.
(b) Horses.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) 135 million acres of land.
7. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?
(a) Indians should be abolished.
(b) Indians should be compensated for land loss.
(c) The Indian Bureau should be abolished.
(d) All land should be taken from Indians.
8. How much was the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin awarded?
(a) $500 thousand.
(b) $1.5 million.
(c) $2 million.
(d) $6 million.
9. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?
(a) The National War Survivors of America.
(b) The National Water Rights of Indian Reservations.
(c) The National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Youth Council.
(d) The National Land Rights Owners.
10. What is the main problem for the Plains Indians?
(a) They still want to go to war.
(b) They have no water.
(c) They spend all day making eagle warbonnets.
(d) An inadequate land base that continues to shrink because of land sales.
11. When Watkins visited the Menominee, what did he compare the living conditions to?
(a) Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack.
(b) The refugee camps of the Near East after World War II.
(c) War torn Italy.
(d) Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.
12. 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 have no title to the land at all, only occupancy rights.
(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 did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?
(a) Two thousand dollars.
(b) One hundred and forty thousand dollars.
(c) Two hundred dollars.
(d) A million dollars.
14. What other name is the Dawes Act known by?
(a) The Indian Ownership Act.
(b) The Indian Referral Act.
(c) The Peace Act.
(d) The Allotment Act.
15. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?
(a) WWII.
(b) The Spanish-American War.
(c) The Korean Conflict.
(d) The Civil War.
Short Answer Questions
1. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?
2. Who did missionaries believe the American Indians were when they connected their religion with the tribes they encountered?
3. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?
4. In the minds of most Indians, what is the best way to eradicate a species?
5. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?
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