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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used to describe the historical and cultural region encompassing North America?
(a) Primitive America.
(b) Mesoamerica.
(c) Ancient America.
(d) Pseudoamerica.

2. What form of warfare did Major General Jeffery Amherst infamously support using against Native people?
(a) Psychological warfare.
(b) Chemical warfare.
(c) Blockade warfare.
(d) Germ warfare.

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

4. What was the name of the settler who first received a bounty in exchange for Native scalps?
(a) Henry Dobyns.
(b) William Henry Drayton.
(c) Lewis Downing.
(d) Hannah Dustin.

5. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, when did human societies migrate out of Africa?
(a) 50,000 years ago.
(b) 200,000 years ago.
(c) 300,000 years ago.
(d) 100,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which stone did the Aztecs consider especially precious?

2. What is the term for a narrative describing how a nation came to exist?

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

4. What became of the descendants of European peasants who were exploited and thrown off their land?

5. What was the primary crop in Native American agriculture?

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