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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does corn differ from most grains?
(a) It's harvested by flooding the land.
(b) It germinates beneath the soil.
(c) It cannot be eaten raw.
(d) It cannot grow in the wild.

2. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what drove colonialization projects in the 1600s?
(a) Missionary projects.
(b) Housing prices.
(c) Gold fever.
(d) European wars.

3. Dunbar-Ortiz argues that Europeans colonists conquered what, rather than land?
(a) Oceans.
(b) People.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Animals.

4. What other name was used for the Seven Years' War?
(a) The French and Indian War.
(b) The Boer War.
(c) The War of Spanish Succession.
(d) The War of Roses.

5. What term is used for the Acadian diaspora that took place in the mid-1700s?
(a) The Great Upheaval.
(b) The Great Exodus.
(c) The Great Disruption.
(d) The Great Trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term, designed to "diffuse the locus of guilt" (4), does Bernard Sheehan use to describe Native-Euro-American relations?

2. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, where did the concept of white supremacy originate?

3. How did Europeans view the newly "discovered" Americas?

4. Native populations developed an extensive system of roadways. What did most of these early roadways eventually become?

5. What form of warfare did Major General Jeffery Amherst infamously support using against Native people?

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