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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom did Zhdanko kill?
(a) Neighbor.
(b) Governor.
(c) King.
(d) Tsar.

3. Why did Varnak's family move?
(a) The mastodon were bothering them.
(b) They lacked food.
(c) It was too cold.
(d) They missed seeing other people.

4. Who was the company's representative to the Aleutian Islands?
(a) Lunmasaq.
(b) Cidaq.
(c) Aleksandr Baranov.
(d) Yermak Rudenko.

5. Why did Trofin got to Okhotsk?
(a) To build a ship.
(b) To hunt.
(c) To escape from the Tsar.
(d) To assassinate someone .

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take the family to reach their destination?

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

3. How did the Tlingits respond when they saw the help arrive?

4. Where did the mastadon settle?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Old One's character like in Chapter 5?

2. How did the Indians react to the invasion of Russians?

3. What was so important about the shifting of the geological plates?

4. How is the mastodon related to the elephant?

5. What was so important about the protuberance in the northwest corner of what was to become North America that the author mentioned in Chapter 1?

6. How did Trofin Zhdanko escape his imprisonment?

7. How did the ice age affect the land that was to become Alaska?

8. How did Sitka Island become colonized?

9. What did the Tlingits want in Chapter 7?

10. Who lived in Varnak's household? What were their roles?

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