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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chatper 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Organic Act do?
(a) It demanded that everyone plant gardens.
(b) It left the land the natives lived on to the Americans.
(c) It established a rudimentary government in Alaska.
(d) It left the land the Americans lived on to the natives.

2. How large was Beringia?
(a) 2 miles wide.
(b) 100 miles wide.
(c) 600 miles wide.
(d) 6000 miles wide.

3. Where was there a protuberance?
(a) In the northwest corner of what was to become Africa.
(b) In the southeast corner of what was to become Asia.
(c) In the southeast corner of what was to become South America.
(d) In the northwest corner of what was to become North America.

4. What is a peninsula?
(a) A piece of land that is connected to the mainland by an isthmus.
(b) A pathway through the mountains.
(c) A crater near the water.
(d) An island very close to a large land mass.

5. Who commissioned Vitus Bering as captain?
(a) He was self appointed.
(b) Tsar Peter Romanov.
(c) Catherine the Great.
(d) Trofin Bhdanko.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did animals come to Alaska?

2. What were the mastadons' chief enemy?

3. What happened to Custom House revenues at Sitka after the Americans took control of Alaska?

4. What did the Indians think of the Americans in the settlement on Sitka?

5. The landmass appeared to have what type of terrain?

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