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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Was there an ice cap at the North Pole?
(a) No.
(b) Only in the winter months.
(c) Only in the summer months.
(d) Yes.

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

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

4. To whom did Russia plan to sell Alaska?
(a) America.
(b) Canada.
(c) Japan.
(d) Australia.

5. Who were taken from Lapak in 1789?
(a) All males over the age of two.
(b) All females over the age of two.
(c) All the women who were mothers.
(d) All the men who were fathers.

6. Where did the Eskimos originate?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Canada.
(c) Alaska.
(d) Japan.

7. When the plates shifted, how many continents could they have attached to?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

8. What arrived to help the Americans?
(a) Weapons.
(b) A warship.
(c) More food.
(d) A group of soldiers .

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

10. Where did Oogruk and his family settle?
(a) On the western-most strip of Alaska.
(b) In the southern-most section of Alaska.
(c) In eastern Alaska.
(d) In Siberia.

11. The mastadon evolved to become _________.
(a) An alligator.
(b) A large river.
(c) The Mammoth.
(d) A Mountain.

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

13. What happened to Custom House revenues at Sitka after the Americans took control of Alaska?
(a) They increased dramatically.
(b) They steadily increased.
(c) They stayed the same.
(d) The dropped.

14. What would happen to Raven-heart when his master died?
(a) He would be given to a stranger.
(b) He would be freed.
(c) He would be killed.
(d) He would be given to his master's relative.

15. As the book opened, the author addressed land formation from how many years ago?
(a) Approximately million.
(b) Approximately a billion.
(c) Approximately a thousand.
(d) Approximately hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Captain Healy stopped his ship along the Alaskan coast, what did he find in the villages?

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

3. What items were traded for pelts?

4. Trofkins team came from all the countries listed except for __________.

5. The Pacific Plate collided with the continental plate resulting in the formation of _____________.

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