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

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

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

4. What was Raven-heart sent to scout?
(a) The island.
(b) The forest.
(c) The beach.
(d) The Armada.

5. What were Jackson and Healy trying to prevent?
(a) War.
(b) The provision of rum to the natives.
(c) Friendship between the Americans and the natives.
(d) A structured government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Cidaq become a Christian?

2. Where did they decide to build ships?

3. What did Lieutenant Ermelov think of Baranov?

4. How many days did it take to build their ship?

5. Varnak's people wandered for how many years?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Trofin Zhdanko escape his imprisonment?

2. How is the mastodon related to the elephant?

3. How did Voronov change in Chapter 5?

4. Where did Oogruk come from? How did he and his family live?

5. What was Cidaq's motivation in Chapter 5, and how did she use it?

6. What was Baranov's character like in Chapter 6?

7. 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?

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

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

10. How did things change when America took control of Alaska?

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