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Treaty context quiz
Treaty Resource Centre
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  This quiz has 20 questions about the social and political context of the Treaty. Please indicate whether each statement is true or false; if anything in the statement is false, tick the ‘False’ box.
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1. The Treaty of Waitangi is generally recognised as law in New Zealand courts.
True False

2. The Maori Affairs Department was set up to give assistance to Maori people in 1953.
True False

3. The first education system here was set up by European missionaries.
True False

4. The Declaration of Independence in Aotearoa was written by Maori people to try to kick the British out.
True False

5. A Maori person wrote the Maori text of the Treaty and a missionary wrote the English version.
True False

6. Discrimination against Maori people has never been legal in New Zealand.
True False

7. Most of the land which the Maori people lost was confiscated by the Government as a result of the land wars.
True False

8. Abel Tasman discovered this place.
True False

9. The Waitangi Tribunal can make final decisions about grievances under the Treaty of Waitangi.
True False

10. The four Maori electoral seats were set up to ensure that Maori people would always be represented in Parliament.
True False

11. Maori protest over land and other justice issues started about 30 years ago.
True False

12. If everyone is treated identically, then everyone has an equal chance to succeed.
True False

13. Past injustices have nothing to do with the present because we didn't do those things and we can't change history.
True False

14. Some people advocate separate development for Maori people - that's the same as the former apartheid policy in South Africa.
True False

15. The Maori King, Te Arikinui, speaks for all Maori people.
True False

16. Pakeha don't have a culture.
True False

17. Government policy is to provide full recompense to Maori for land unjustly taken.
True False

18. The British government decided to act in 1840 to prevent the French government from colonising New Zealand.
True False

19. The British government never recognised the sovereignty of Maori.
True False

20. The Moriori, a Melanesian people, were the first inhabitants of New Zealand and were forced to flee when the Maori people arrived from Polynesia.
True False

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