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

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

3. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for the specific type of colonialism used to form the United States?
(a) Exploitation colonialism.
(b) Settler colonialism.
(c) Surrogate colonialism.
(d) Imperialist colonialism.

4. Prior to the Colonial era, how many Native people inhabited the region that is now part of the U.S.?
(a) 15 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 5 million.

5. How did Native communities make important decisions?
(a) Their priests made all decisions.
(b) They sought a group consensus.
(c) Women and elders took a vote.
(d) Elected official decided for the group.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Latin term for "land without people" (2)?

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

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

4. What term refers to the the use of economic and political pressures to control foreign countries?

5. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what drove colonialization projects in the 1600s?

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