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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Dunbar-Ortiz describes settler colonialism as a certain type of political policy. What adjective does she use to describe this policy?
(a) Imperial.
(b) Abnormal.
(c) Genocidal.
(d) Consequential.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, where did the concept of white supremacy originate?

2. What was the name of the settler who first received a bounty in exchange for Native scalps?

3. What was the outcome of the Treaty of Paris?

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

5. Native populations developed an extensive system of roadways. What did most of these early roadways eventually become?

Short Essay Questions

1. Dunbar-Ortiz discusses methods of warfare used by the U.S. military to destroy the enemy's will to resist. What does this type of "irregular warfare" typically involve?

2. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what was the impact of the Northwest Ordinance?

3. Native populations were often shocked by the European form of warfare. What aspects of the European style of warfare horrified Native communities?

4. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, the English popularized a theory that only they were made in God's image. What origins did they ascribe to other races?

5. Why did settlers try to recruit Native people as rangers?

6. How did Europeans use Christianity to support colonialism?

7. What was the result of the "privatization of the commons" (34) during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

8. Under settler-colonialism, colonizers disrupted trade routes and triggered widespread food shortages. How did food shortages affect Native communities?

9. The Mayans practiced forced labor, often making servants of war prisoners and criminals. How did this practice differ from chattel slavery within the U.S.?

10. Native communities who tried to ally themselves with settlers often broke off alliance after a while. Why did these ruptures occur?

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