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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 cannot grow in the wild.
(b) It germinates beneath the soil.
(c) It cannot be eaten raw.
(d) It's harvested by flooding the land.

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

3. What was the outcome of the Treaty of Paris?
(a) Britain ceded Canada and territory west of the Mississippi to the French.
(b) France claimed Canada and all western territories within the Americans.
(c) Britain reclaimed all territories within the Americas from France and Spain.
(d) France ceded Canada and the territory east of the Mississippi to the British.

4. Who was the governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War?
(a) Benjamin Hawkins.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Murray.
(d) Ulysses Grant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. John Smith convinced Powhatan leaders to feed and clothe English settlers. How did he achieve this?

2. What Native term was used as a code name during the assassination of Osama Bin Laden?

3. During the onset of colonialism, the native population in the Americas rapidly shrank. By what percentage were native populations reduced?

4. Where did Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries learn techniques used for long-distance sea travel?

5. What was the name of the first governing document of Plymouth Colony?

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