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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 Columbus make a fourth voyage to the Caribbean?
(a) 1509.
(b) 1511.
(c) 1500.
(d) 1502.

2. Where was a large homeland secured for the Lakota in the second Treaty of Fort Laramie?
(a) Northwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Southwestern South Dakota and northern Nebraska.
(d) South Dakota.

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

4. When was the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee published?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1965.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) land on the mainland of North America?

2. When Ponce de Leon arrived in Florida in 1513, how long had Indians been living there?

3. When were at least 150 Lakota Sioux killed in South Dakota?

4. Where did the Ghost Dance religion start?

5. When did the state of Georgia agree to give up claims to land if the federal government would remove or reduce the Indians in Georgia?

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