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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Author's Note-Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, which population was the first to be forcibly organized and exploited by European aristocracy?
(a) Southeast Asians.
(b) Native Caribbean.
(c) Western Africans.
(d) European peasantry.

2. Prior to the Colonial era, how many Native people inhabited the region that is now part of the U.S.?
(a) 15 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 20 million.

3. How does corn differ from most grains?
(a) It's harvested by flooding the land.
(b) It cannot grow in the wild.
(c) It germinates beneath the soil.
(d) It cannot be eaten raw.

4. During the onset of colonialism, the native population in the Americas rapidly shrank. By what percentage were native populations reduced?
(a) 90%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 60%.

5. Dunbar-Ortiz describes settler colonialism as a certain type of political policy. What adjective does she use to describe this policy?
(a) Genocidal.
(b) Imperial.
(c) Abnormal.
(d) Consequential.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the European aristocracy characterize the peasants who resisted the privatization of land?

2. The American bison was indigenous to what region?

3. Native populations developed an extensive system of roadways. What did most of these early roadways eventually become?

4. What term refers to the the use of economic and political pressures to control foreign countries?

5. What term does anthropologist Michael Wilcox use to describe the historical tendency to gloss over the "disappearance" of native people?

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