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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, which Christian denomination represented the "elite" in the Colonial era?
(a) Pentecostals.
(b) Baptists.
(c) Quakers.
(d) Episcopalians.

2. What term is used by the U.S. military to describe areas behind enemy lines?
(a) Indian Country.
(b) No-Man's Land.
(c) War Council.
(d) Hostile Territory.

3. How many Ulster-Scots emigrated to North America during 1717-1775?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 200,000.

4. What was the name of the settler who first received a bounty in exchange for Native scalps?
(a) Hannah Dustin.
(b) William Henry Drayton.
(c) Henry Dobyns.
(d) Lewis Downing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, which population was the first to be forcibly organized and exploited by European aristocracy?
(a) Southeast Asians.
(b) Native Caribbean.
(c) European peasantry.
(d) Western Africans.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, when did human societies migrate out of Africa?

4. What term does anthropologist Michael Wilcox use to describe the historical tendency to gloss over the "disappearance" of native people?

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

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