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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Watkins visited the Menominee, what did he compare the living conditions to?
(a) Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack.
(b) Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.
(c) War torn Italy.
(d) The refugee camps of the Near East after World War II.

2. Why, according to the author, do anthropologists never carry a writing instrument?
(a) Because they are afraid they will hurt a child with it.
(b) Because they would rather record than write for accuracy.
(c) Because the ink dries up in the sun.
(d) Because they already know what they are going to find.

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

4. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) WWII.
(c) The Korean Conflict.
(d) The Spanish-American War.

5. What other name is the Wheeler-Howard Act known by?
(a) The Cavalry Act.
(b) The Indian Encampment Act.
(c) The Howard- Wheeler Act.
(d) The Reorganization Act of 1934.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?

4. What does not overlap across state boundaries?

5. What did Lake Superior hold that the government wanted?

Short Essay Questions

1. In February 1954, approval was granted for Termination of Indians. Why were the four factors, which Zimmerman implemented in 1947 to classify tribal readiness for termination, not used?

2. What was the term "dependency," as used in the Delaware Treaty of September 17, 1778?

3. What did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 with the Chippewa tribe do?

4. What happened to the Seneca Nation of New York?

5. Describe the treatment of the Choctaws. Why was their treatment worse when compared to other Indian peoples?

6. What was the Pickering Treaty? Why was it thus named? What was the final outcome of the Pickering Treaty?

7. What criteria, according to the author, do whites use to say that they "understand" Indians?

8. Why has the Indian Reorganization Act responded so well to fit the European white model?

9. How did Indians become citizens and what effect did this have on Termination?

10. What did anthropologists find about alcoholism on the reservation? What does the author think of this finding?

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