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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, which Christian denomination represented the "elite" in the Colonial era?
(a) Episcopalians.
(b) Baptists.
(c) Pentecostals.
(d) Quakers.

2. Where did Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries learn techniques used for long-distance sea travel?
(a) From West Asian nations.
(b) From East Asian nations.
(c) From African nations.
(d) From Arab nations.

3. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, which population was the first to be forcibly organized and exploited by European aristocracy?
(a) European peasantry.
(b) Southeast Asians.
(c) Native Caribbean.
(d) Western Africans.

4. What was the name of the first governing document of Plymouth Colony?
(a) The Federalist Papers.
(b) The Bill of Rights.
(c) The Mayflower Compact.
(d) The Declaration of Independence.

5. What was the primary crop in Native American agriculture?
(a) Millet.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Corn.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which stone did the Aztecs consider especially precious?

2. What term does anthropologist Michael Wilcox use to describe the historical tendency to gloss over the "disappearance" of native people?

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

4. Who was the governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War?

5. Dunbar-Ortiz argues that Europeans colonists conquered what, rather than land?

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