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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who took the people from the island?
(a) Russian hunters.
(b) Russian tradesmen.
(c) Siberian hunters.
(d) Siberian tradesmen.

2. Alaska was joined to what land mass during the Ice Age?
(a) Australia.
(b) Canada.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Africa.

3. Varnak's people wandered for how many years?
(a) 3.
(b) 40.
(c) 25.
(d) 19.

4. What animal did they hunt for food and other purposes when they reached their destination?
(a) Wolf.
(b) Lions.
(c) Beaver.
(d) Mammoth.

5. How did the Tlingits respond when they saw the help arrive?
(a) They fought.
(b) They persuaded the Americans that they never meant to cause harm.
(c) They left the area.
(d) They stole the food.

6. Baranov showed the Tlingits __________.
(a) An old musket.
(b) How to make a ship.
(c) How to plant a garden.
(d) A cannon.

7. Where did they decide to build ships?
(a) Boksheretsk.
(b) Okhotsk.
(c) Lanewpak.
(d) Alaska.

8. Where did Trofin Zhdanko live?
(a) Yakula.
(b) Vologda.
(c) Alaska.
(d) Lapak.

9. How old was Baranov when Ermelov had him investigated? and
(a) 30.
(b) 70.
(c) 50.
(d) 65.

10. What did Baranov want to build for Voronov?
(a) A boat.
(b) A synagogue.
(c) An onion dome church.
(d) A house.

11. Where did the Russians build a fort?
(a) Next to the Tlingits.
(b) Redoubt St. Michael.
(c) In the woods.
(d) A few miles from the Tlingits.

12. What happened to the shaman who tried to help Cidaq?
(a) Baranov beat him.
(b) Rudenko killed him.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He was sent to prison.

13. What did Lieutenant Ermelov think of Baranov?
(a) He was very critical of his use of government funds.
(b) He found him to be a very practical man.
(c) He admired Baranov's handling of government funds.
(d) He was impressed with his honesty.

14. Where did a land bridge form?
(a) Between Alaska and the Arctic Circle.
(b) Between Alaska and Canada.
(c) Between Alaska and Asia.
(d) Between Alaska and Australia.

15. What were Jackson and Healy trying to prevent?
(a) A structured government.
(b) War.
(c) The provision of rum to the natives.
(d) Friendship between the Americans and the natives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were taken from Lapak in 1789?

2. Why did Trofin got to Okhotsk?

3. How large was Beringia?

4. How did animals come to Alaska?

5. What did Baranov think about supplying rum and guns to the natives?

(see the answer keys)

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