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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7: Digital Indians: 1990-2018.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many students died at the Carlisle school?
(a) 135.
(b) Thousands.
(c) 150.
(d) Hundreds.

2. In 1890, how many Indians did the U.S. Census Bureau tabulate?
(a) 180,000.
(b) Around 300,000.
(c) Less than 200,000.
(d) 220,000.

3. In 1980, what percent of Americans trusted the government to do what was right most of the time?
(a) 27%.
(b) 18%.
(c) 11%.
(d) 31%.

4. When did Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) land on the mainland of North America?
(a) 1483.
(b) 1488.
(c) 1490.
(d) 1497.

5. When was the dam built that created Lake Oahe and submerged hisotrical Mandan and Hidatsa sites?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was a large homeland secured for the Lakota in the second Treaty of Fort Laramie?

2. Near what lake did Treuer meet Bob Matthews on the leech Lake Indian Reservation?

3. During the first five years of the California gold rush, how many tons of gold were mined by placer mining?

4. How many years of Indian history does Treuer tell in the book?

5. When did the Birtch Creek dam break and cause a terrible flood?

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