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

2. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?
(a) Pueblos of New Mexico and the Apache of the Southwest.
(b) The Apaches of the Southwest and the Northwest Coast Indians.
(c) The Nez Perce and the Sioux.
(d) The Alaskan Inuits and the Pueblos of New Mexico.

3. Who appointed Dillon Myer as Commissioner of Indian Affairs?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) President Nixon.
(c) President Roosevelt.
(d) President Truman.

4. What kind of people do anthropologists believe the Indians are?
(a) A folk people.
(b) A native people.
(c) A white people.
(d) A foreign people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?

2. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?

3. What has created a feeling of unity among American Indians?

4. Who was Arthur Watkins?

5. Why did the Oglala Sioux become a favorite subject for study by anthropologists?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did William Zimmerman, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs classify existing tribes into categories for Termination?

2. Why are hunting and fishing rights important to the Indians of Idaho, Washington and Oregon at the time of this writing?

3. How have the workshops offered by anthropologists affected the young Indians?

4. 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?

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

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

7. What is unique about the Apache of the Southwest?

8. 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?

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

10. Why are the American Indians lost when, in Congressional hearings, the chairman of the committee talks about the Anglo-Saxon heritage of law and order?

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