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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the primary crop in Native American agriculture?
(a) Corn.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Millet.
(d) Wheat.

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

5. What term, coined in the 1940s, describes the systemic annihilation of a group of people?
(a) Extinction.
(b) Termination.
(c) Erasure.
(d) Genocide.

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

7. What term was used for Muslims who converted to Christianity?
(a) The Transmuted.
(b) The Conversos.
(c) The Moriscos.
(d) The Redeemed.

8. What was the name of the first governing document of Plymouth Colony?
(a) The Federalist Papers.
(b) The Declaration of Independence.
(c) The Mayflower Compact.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

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

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

11. When was Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?
(a) 1632.
(b) 1628.
(c) 1626.
(d) 1630.

12. Where did Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries learn techniques used for long-distance sea travel?
(a) From West Asian nations.
(b) From Arab nations.
(c) From African nations.
(d) From East Asian nations.

13. Which stone did the Aztecs consider especially precious?
(a) Quartz.
(b) Opal.
(c) Turquoise.
(d) Sapphire.

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

15. What was the outcome of the Treaty of Paris?
(a) Britain reclaimed all territories within the Americas from France and Spain.
(b) Britain ceded Canada and territory west of the Mississippi to the French.
(c) France ceded Canada and the territory east of the Mississippi to the British.
(d) France claimed Canada and all western territories within the Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Doctrine of Discovery state?

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

3. How many Ulster-Scots emigrated to North America during 1717-1775?

4. What term, designed to "diffuse the locus of guilt" (4), does Bernard Sheehan use to describe Native-Euro-American relations?

5. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, when did human societies develop agriculture?

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