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

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

3. What does the author believe anthropologists should do in the future?
(a) Stop worrying about publishing and live among the Indians.
(b) Learn the art of the Indians and give up anthropology.
(c) Stop researching and preying on the Indian, and start helping.
(d) Start writing everything down.

4. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?
(a) The Indians would have to move again and give up more land.
(b) There was a one year delay on all services while the tribe voted.
(c) The Indians would have to give up hunting rights.
(d) Once a reservation voted against the acceptance of the provisions of the act, they were forbidden from considering it again.

5. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?
(a) They tripled their land mass.
(b) They told the Indians that the state would be running their services and it would be more efficient.
(c) They offered them money in return for termination.
(d) Utah promised them recognition by the federal government of their tribal marriages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrases does Mr. Farb continue to use when talking about Indians?

2. What year did the United States clear the eastern states of the former Indian allies?

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

4. Why did the Klamath Bill have to be amended?

5. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the history of the Sioux who lived along the Missouri River?

4. According to the author, what European background is the law of the United States built on?

5. What is the problem with most books about American Indians, according to the author? What do the incorrect portrayals of the Indians do to harm the image of the Indian, and complicate understanding of the people by others?

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

7. Why was Termination such a tragedy for the people of the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin?

8. What was Frank Church's attitude towards the Indian? Why was this line of thought so harmful during the time of Termination?

9. 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?

10. What happens every summer with work camps and teenagers? What do the teenagers learn in one month that adults do not understand? What is the author's point about this program?

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