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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. What was the mastodon?
(a) An animal similar to an elephant.
(b) A reptile.
(c) A type of hill.
(d) A tall ship.

2. Who departed Alaska in 1877?
(a) The Tlingit Indians.
(b) Army troops.
(c) The Eskimos.
(d) The Americans.

3. Who was sold when the Tsar Ivan came to the island?
(a) Zhdanko.
(b) Cidaq.
(c) Old One.
(d) Maria.

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

5. What was the purpose of the sailing trip?
(a) To hunt for whales.
(b) To find out if there was a land bridge.
(c) To carry cargo for merchants.
(d) To emigrate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Organic Act do?

2. Where did a land bridge form?

3. What strengthened the relationship between Rudenko and Baranov?

4. What were Jackson and Healy trying to prevent?

5. How high were summer temperatures?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the mastodon related to the elephant?

3. According to Chapter 1, how did Alaska become separated from Asia? How was the landscape of Alaska changed?

4. How did the rum trading affect the Tlingits?

5. How were the natives perceived by the Russians?

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

7. How did Trofin Zhdanko escape his imprisonment?

8. How did illness change the course of history for Trofin?

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

10. 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?

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