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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used to describe the historical and cultural region encompassing North America?
(a) Ancient America.
(b) Pseudoamerica.
(c) Mesoamerica.
(d) Primitive America.

2. What is the Latin term for "land without people" (2)?
(a) Terra incognita.
(b) Terra frequens.
(c) Terra nullius.
(d) Terra occupatum.

3. What Native nation was predominant in the territory of Georgia during the early 1700s?
(a) The Miami.
(b) The Seminole.
(c) The Cherokee.
(d) The Muskogee.

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

5. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for the specific type of colonialism used to form the United States?
(a) Settler colonialism.
(b) Imperialist colonialism.
(c) Exploitation colonialism.
(d) Surrogate colonialism.

6. What term refers to the the use of economic and political pressures to control foreign countries?
(a) Neocolonialism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Development.
(d) Expansionism.

7. What form of warfare did Major General Jeffery Amherst infamously support using against Native people?
(a) Psychological warfare.
(b) Chemical warfare.
(c) Germ warfare.
(d) Blockade warfare.

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

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

10. What other name was used for the Seven Years' War?
(a) The French and Indian War.
(b) The War of Roses.
(c) The Boer War.
(d) The War of Spanish Succession.

11. What term does anthropologist Michael Wilcox use to describe the historical tendency to gloss over the "disappearance" of native people?
(a) Ultimate narratives.
(b) Terminal narratives.
(c) Final narratives.
(d) Closing narratives.

12. What Native term was used as a code name during the assassination of Osama Bin Laden?
(a) Thunderbird.
(b) Tomahawk.
(c) Geronimo.
(d) Teepee.

13. What job or task did most Scots-Irish settlers perform?
(a) Farming.
(b) Cattle-ranching.
(c) Book-keeping.
(d) Mining.

14. According to Dunbar Ortiz, white supremacy became an integral part of which religion's ideology?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Protestantism.

15. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, when did human societies migrate out of Africa?
(a) 100,000 years ago.
(b) 200,000 years ago.
(c) 300,000 years ago.
(d) 50,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dunbar-Ortiz describes settler colonialism as a certain type of political policy. What adjective does she use to describe this policy?

2. How many Ulster-Scots emigrated to North America during 1717-1775?

3. Who was the governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War?

4. What term is used for the Acadian diaspora that took place in the mid-1700s?

5. What year were Israel and South Africa founded?

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