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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was happening to the fur trade?
(a) It remained constant.
(b) It was very lucrative.
(c) It was opening doors for other types of trading.
(d) It was disappearing rapidly.

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

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

5. How high were summer temperatures?
(a) 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

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

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

9. When Russian boats returned two years later, they found the settlement was __________.
(a) Greatly expanded.
(b) Destroyed.
(c) Thriving.
(d) Struggling.

10. Trofkins team came from all the countries listed except for __________.
(a) Germany.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Sweden.

11. What did the Indians think of the Americans in the settlement on Sitka?
(a) They made plans to attack them.
(b) They wanted to befriend them.
(c) They wanted to protect them.
(d) They were afraid of them.

12. When Captain Healy stopped his ship along the Alaskan coast, what did he find in the villages?
(a) Thriving businesses.
(b) Sick people.
(c) Mostly dead people.
(d) Americans working with natives.

13. The protuberance would eventually become __________.
(a) Antartica.
(b) Alaska.
(c) Europe.
(d) Africa.

14. Where did the family go?
(a) Up into the mountains.
(b) Out to sea.
(c) Over to the beach area.
(d) Across the bridge to Alaska.

15. How many Ice Ages were there?
(a) One.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Americans in the settlement go for help?

2. How did the little ones learn about their family's move?

3. Why did Trofin got to Okhotsk?

4. Whom did Zhdanko kill?

5. Russian prisoners on the ship were taken to _________.

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