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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were 173 Blackfeet Indians killed by U.S. troops when they were directed to the wrong camp?
(a) December 1869.
(b) March 1870.
(c) January 1870.
(d) October 1869.

2. During the first five years of the California gold rush, how many tons of gold were mined by placer mining?
(a) 410.
(b) 355.
(c) About 290.
(d) More than 370.

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

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

5. Between 1616 and 1619, what percent of the population of the New England tribes was wiped out by disease?
(a) As much as 90%.
(b) About 70%.
(c) 95%.
(d) 65%.

6. When did a representative of the Iroquois Confederacy declare war on Germany, Italy, Japan, and their allies?
(a) June 13, 1942.
(b) April 18, 1942.
(c) May 9, 1942.
(d) July 28, 1942.

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

8. When were peaceful Blackfeet massacred on the Marais River?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1878.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1870.

9. What weight was Sam Cleveland down to in 2012 so he could wrestle in March?
(a) 159.
(b) 164.
(c) 155.
(d) 161.

10. By 1932, what was Joseph Oklahombi's monthly veteran's pension?
(a) $12.
(b) $15.
(c) $9.
(d) $10.

11. When did Richard Henry Pratt open the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1880.

12. When were the last compulsory boarding school programs suspended?
(a) Late 1920s.
(b) 1924.
(c) Late 1930s.
(d) 1938.

13. On what lake is the town of Bena?
(a) Sixmile Lake.
(b) Leech Lake.
(c) Ball Club Lake.
(d) Lake Winnibigoshish.

14. When did a party of Dakota attack a Ojibwe sugar camp near the Saint Croix River?
(a) March 1850.
(b) April 1850.
(c) February 1850.
(d) June 1850.

15. When did Arizona and New Mexico allow Indians to vote?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1943.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee published?

2. What did Treuer study in college?

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

4. When did Sam Cleveland's mother commit suicide?

5. In 1890, how many Indians did the U.S. Census Bureau tabulate?

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