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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Purgatory: 1891-1934.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How early were two and then three agencies created to treat and trade with Indian tribes?
(a) 1783.
(b) 1770.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1775.

3. When did the Spanish attempt to settle in what is present-day South Carolina?
(a) 1498 and 1502.
(b) 1530 and 1570.
(c) 1511 and 1521.
(d) 1526 and 1566.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the estimated population of Cahokia around 1050-1250 CE?

2. When was an order for Sitting Bull's arrest issued?

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

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

5. Where were at least 150 Lakota Sioux killed in South Dakota?

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