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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 remaining islanders survive?
(a) By planting gardens.
(b) By eating berries.
(c) By hunting for mammoth.
(d) By hunting for whales.

2. Where did the Americans in the settlement go for help?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Canada.
(c) America.
(d) Japan.

3. What was Big Ears' new name?
(a) Great One.
(b) Ivan.
(c) Peter.
(d) Lunmasaq.

4. What strengthened the relationship between Rudenko and Baranov?
(a) Time in prayer.
(b) Polar bear hunting.
(c) Working together.
(d) Sailing together.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tsar Peter Romanov want Trofin Zhdanko?

2. Who commissioned Vitus Bering as captain?

3. When Russian boats returned two years later, they found the settlement was __________.

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

5. What happened to the shaman who tried to help Cidaq?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a land bridge? How was it significant in Chapter 1?

2. How did Chapter 4 highlight some of the cruelty involved in the fur trade business?

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

4. How is the mastodon related to the elephant?

5. How did the rum trading affect the Tlingits?

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

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

8. How did Trofin Zhdanko escape his imprisonment?

9. Describe the different ice ages mentioned in Chapter 2.

10. How did food factor into Oogruk's story in Chapter 3?

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