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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 Samuel de Champlain land at the site that would become Quebec?
(a) 1602.
(b) 1611.
(c) 1617.
(d) 1608.

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

3. When did Sitting Bull formally surrender to government forces?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1882.

4. By the late 1870s, approximately how many bison were killed per day?
(a) About 5,000.
(b) 3,200.
(c) 7,000.
(d) Around 4,500.

5. Since what time were spices traded from east to west via coastal routes?
(a) At least 3000 BCE.
(b) 1980 BCE.
(c) Around 2000 BCE.
(d) 3500 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the author raised?

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

3. When did English fishing fleets begin fishing in Newfoundland waters?

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

5. During what century did Leif Eriksson explore the northern Atlantic littoral?

(see the answer key)

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