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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Native nation was predominant in the territory of Georgia during the early 1700s?
(a) The Muskogee.
(b) The Miami.
(c) The Seminole.
(d) The Cherokee.

2. Which of the following tribes was a member of the Six Nations of the Iroquois confederacy?
(a) The Navajo.
(b) The Sioux.
(c) The Seneca.
(d) The Cahuilla.

3. What other name was used for the Seven Years' War?
(a) The Boer War.
(b) The War of Spanish Succession.
(c) The War of Roses.
(d) The French and Indian War.

4. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for land as a commodity?
(a) Settler plots.
(b) Real estate.
(c) Freeholds.
(d) Territories.

5. During the onset of colonialism, the native population in the Americas rapidly shrank. By what percentage were native populations reduced?
(a) 70%.
(b) 90%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 80%.

6. 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) Imperialist colonialism.
(d) Surrogate colonialism.

7. What did the Doctrine of Discovery state?
(a) The Philippines were open to American expansion.
(b) The Americas were open to the Spanish conquest.
(c) Canada was open to American expansion.
(d) Africa was open to the Spanish conquest.

8. Which philosopher and theologian influenced the Puritans as they formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) John Smith.
(b) John Locke.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) John Knox.

9. What Native term was used as a code name during the assassination of Osama Bin Laden?
(a) Tomahawk.
(b) Geronimo.
(c) Teepee.
(d) Thunderbird.

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

11. How did Europeans view the newly "discovered" Americas?
(a) As a virgin land or wilderness.
(b) As a complex civilization.
(c) As a confining spare or prison.
(d) As a barren wasteland.

12. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, how many U.S. presidents were of Ulster-Scots lineage?
(a) 12.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 21.

13. What Christian denomination did most Calvinists belong to?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Methodism.
(c) Presbyterianism.
(d) Lutherenism.

14. Where nations did the Ulster-Scots originate from?
(a) Scotland and Germany.
(b) Scotland and Wales.
(c) Scotland and Ireland.
(d) Scotland and England.

15. What became of the descendants of European peasants who were exploited and thrown off their land?
(a) Many chose to open their own business.
(b) Many became European aristocracy.
(c) Many became settler-colonists in the Americas.
(d) Many chose to move to Asian and African regions.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, which population was the first to be forcibly organized and exploited by European aristocracy?

2. What percentage of the population of the Thirteen Colonies was made up of Ulster-Scots?

3. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, who were the "foot soldiers of the British Empire building" (52)?

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

5. How did the European aristocracy treat women in their society?

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