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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 creation myth.
(b) A source legend.
(c) An origin myth.
(d) A genesis legend.

2. The American bison was indigenous to what region?
(a) The northern and southern plains.
(b) The eastern seaboard.
(c) The southwestern deserts.
(d) The southeastern swampland.

3. What percentage of the 16,000 Cherokees who were forced onto the Trail of Tears perished on the journey?
(a) 30%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 20%.

4. How does the Dunbar-Ortiz describe the Iraq War?
(a) As an "Indian war."
(b) As a "settler's war."
(c) As a "democratic war."
(d) As a "colonialist war."

5. What term, designed to "diffuse the locus of guilt" (4), does Bernard Sheehan use to describe Native-Euro-American relations?
(a) Cultural conflict.
(b) Regional conflict.
(c) Interracial conflict.
(d) Relational conflict.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who allegedly claimed that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" (139)?

2. When was Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?

3. Which philosopher and theologian influenced the Puritans as they formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

4. According to Dunbar Ortiz, white supremacy became an integral part of which religion's ideology?

5. What animal served as the economic base of the Plains Nations?

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