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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was an order for Sitting Bull's arrest issued?
(a) September 30, 1890.
(b) December 15, 1890.
(c) November 9, 1890.
(d) October 11, 1890.

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

3. Where was the author raised?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) North Dakota.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Wyoming.

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

5. At about what time was Acoma settled?
(a) 1000 CE.
(b) 1050 CE.
(c) 1100 CE.
(d) 1150 CE.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Indian Rights Association formed in Philadelphia?

2. How old was Treuer's cousin Sam Cleveland in 2012?

3. When did Jack Wilson have a vision of the Ghost Dance?

4. Since what time were spices traded from east to west via coastal routes?

5. From what Indian tribe is Kevin Washburn from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the purpose of the Indian boarding schools?

2. How did President Ulysses S. Grant change the ways the federal government worked with Indian tribes?

3. What is the earliest verified record of settlement in North America?

4. What happened when Chief Standing Bear and his followers took the chief's eldest son's body to be buried in Nebraska on their ancestral homelands?

5. What were the motivations behind Christopher Columbus's journey when the landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492?

6. What disease did Treuer believe his cousin Sam battled when he fought?

7. What is Leech Lake Reservation?

8. Why are there not many archaeological findings in the Southeast on the Atlantic coast?

9. Why were Indians often found at the front when they fought for the U.S.?

10. What was the First Seminole War, and what happened after the war?

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