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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for the specific type of colonialism used to form the United States?
(a) Surrogate colonialism.
(b) Imperialist colonialism.
(c) Settler colonialism.
(d) Exploitation colonialism.

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

4. How does corn differ from most grains?
(a) It germinates beneath the soil.
(b) It cannot be eaten raw.
(c) It's harvested by flooding the land.
(d) It cannot grow in the wild.

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

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

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

8. In U.S. settler colonialism, what was the primary commodity?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Gold.
(c) Land.
(d) Horses.

9. What country did John Locke and John Knox hail from?
(a) Wales.
(b) Scotland.
(c) England.
(d) Ireland.

10. What percentage of the population of the Thirteen Colonies was made up of Ulster-Scots?
(a) 15%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 25%.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what drove colonialization projects in the 1600s?

2. How did the European aristocracy characterize the peasants who resisted the privatization of land?

3. What year did the Mayflower land in the Americas?

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

5. Who was the governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War?

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