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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Narrating the Apocalypse: 10,000 BCE-1890.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Zintkala Nuni or Lost Bird die?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1918.

2. How many Lakota survived Wounded Knee?
(a) About 300.
(b) 230.
(c) More than 200.
(d) 175.

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

4. When Ponce de Leon arrived in Florida in 1513, how long had Indians been living there?
(a) About 10,000 years.
(b) 15,000 years.
(c) At least 12,000 years.
(d) 11,000 years.

5. How far back may humans have lived at the site found at Meadowcroft Rockshelter?
(a) 19,000 years.
(b) 7,000 years.
(c) 15,000 years.
(d) 9,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Columbus make a fourth voyage to the Caribbean?

2. When did Samuel de Champlain land at the site that would become Quebec?

3. Where did the Ghost Dance religion start?

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

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

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