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

2. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?
(a) The Wheeler-Howard act was a success.
(b) The Wheeler-Howard act was working well.
(c) The Wheeler-Howard act was not accomplishing the task of bringing the Indian people up to the level of their white neighbors.
(d) The Wheeler-Howard act needed an amendment for money to build new schools.

3. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?
(a) With new rules established by white men.
(b) With outside help.
(c) With government intervention.
(d) In traditional Indian fashion.

4. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?
(a) Greed.
(b) Paternalism.
(c) Fairness.
(d) Racism.

5. What year did the United States clear the eastern states of the former Indian allies?
(a) 1955.
(b) 2010.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1886.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other name is the Wheeler-Howard Act known by?

2. What have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?

3. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?

4. What other name is the Dawes Act known by?

5. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe what happens to the Virginia Indians each year at Thanksgiving. What is this in response to?

3. What is paternalism?

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

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

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

7. When the anthropologists stated that the Oglala Sioux need to be warriors, what was really happening to the Oglala Sioux?

8. What are the 4 main rules to Rene Descartes' method of research? Was this a good method to examine the lives of Indians for Termination?

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

10. What is the Treaty of August 5, 1826 with the Chippewa tribe known for?

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