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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of warfare did Major General Jeffery Amherst infamously support using against Native people?
(a) Germ warfare.
(b) Blockade warfare.
(c) Psychological warfare.
(d) Chemical warfare.

2. John Smith convinced Powhatan leaders to feed and clothe English settlers. How did he achieve this?
(a) He claimed that the Native people had a spiritual duty of offer help.
(b) He promised that the English government would repay Natives.
(c) He threatened to kill all Native women and children.
(d) He traded gold and silver in exchange for Native help.

3. Dunbar-Ortiz describes settler colonialism as a certain type of political policy. What adjective does she use to describe this policy?
(a) Genocidal.
(b) Imperial.
(c) Consequential.
(d) Abnormal.

4. What percentage of the population of the Thirteen Colonies was made up of Ulster-Scots?
(a) 20%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 25%.

5. What term, designed to "diffuse the locus of guilt" (4), does Bernard Sheehan use to describe Native-Euro-American relations?
(a) Regional conflict.
(b) Interracial conflict.
(c) Relational conflict.
(d) Cultural conflict.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, when did human societies develop agriculture?

2. What did the Doctrine of Discovery state?

3. What term is used for the Acadian diaspora that took place in the mid-1700s?

4. What is the term for a narrative describing how a nation came to exist?

5. What term was used for the "systemic destruction of all the indigenous agricultural resources" (61)?

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