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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Author's Note-Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the onset of colonialism, the native population in the Americas rapidly shrank. By what percentage were native populations reduced?
(a) 90%.
(b) 70%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 60%.

2. What term, coined in the 1940s, describes the systemic annihilation of a group of people?
(a) Erasure.
(b) Termination.
(c) Extinction.
(d) Genocide.

3. Which stone did the Aztecs consider especially precious?
(a) Opal.
(b) Turquoise.
(c) Quartz.
(d) Sapphire.

4. What term does anthropologist Michael Wilcox use to describe the historical tendency to gloss over the "disappearance" of native people?
(a) Closing narratives.
(b) Final narratives.
(c) Ultimate narratives.
(d) Terminal narratives.

5. What did the Doctrine of Discovery state?
(a) Africa was open to the Spanish conquest.
(b) The Americas were open to the Spanish conquest.
(c) Canada was open to American expansion.
(d) The Philippines were open to American expansion.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, which population was the first to be forcibly organized and exploited by European aristocracy?

2. What term was used for Muslims who converted to Christianity?

3. Prior to the Colonial era, how many Native people inhabited the region that is now part of the U.S.?

4. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for land as a commodity?

5. How did the European aristocracy characterize the peasants who resisted the privatization of land?

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