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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term for a narrative describing how a nation came to exist?
(a) A genesis legend.
(b) A source legend.
(c) A creation myth.
(d) An origin myth.

2. What was the name of the Lakota Sioux's sacred land, where Mount Rushmore is now located?
(a) The Black Hills.
(b) The Blue Lake.
(c) The Green Mountains.
(d) The Great Plains.

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

4. What year did the U.S. purchase Alaska?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1863.

5. What was the name for the forced march of 8,000 Navajos to a military concentration camp in New Mexico?
(a) The Bloody Trek.
(b) The Death March.
(c) The Cruel Journey.
(d) The Long Walk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Tecumseh killed?

2. What year was the Treaty of Fort Jackson signed?

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

4. What term, coined in the 1940s, describes the systemic annihilation of a group of people?

5. What year did the Great Railroad Strike take place?

(see the answer key)

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