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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. Where did the Ghost Dance religion start?
(a) Utah.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Montana.
(d) Nevada.
2. When did Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) land on the mainland of North America?
(a) 1490.
(b) 1488.
(c) 1497.
(d) 1483.
3. When were at least 150 Lakota Sioux killed in South Dakota?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1882.
4. Where did thousands of Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Choctaw, and Chicasaw families move to from Oklahoma and became homesteaders?
(a) Nebraska, Colorado, and Utah.
(b) Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado.
(c) Missouri and Texas.
(d) Wyoming and Montana.
5. What did Treuer study in college?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) History.
(d) Psychology.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Sam Cleveland's mother commit suicide?
2. During the first five years of the California gold rush, how many tons of gold were mined by placer mining?
3. How many students died at the Carlisle school?
4. When were 173 Blackfeet Indians killed by U.S. troops when they were directed to the wrong camp?
5. How old was Treuer's cousin Sam Cleveland in 2012?
Short Essay Questions
1. What disease did Treuer believe his cousin Sam battled when he fought?
2. What were the motivations behind Christopher Columbus's journey when the landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492?
3. What did Indian Rights groups in the 1880s say about the reservation system?
4. Why did Indians resist the draft during World War I?
5. What was the Meriam Report, and what were its findings?
6. How did the Cherokee and other tribes take advantage of the Homestead Act?
7. How did President Ulysses S. Grant change the ways the federal government worked with Indian tribes?
8. Why are there not many archaeological findings in the Southeast on the Atlantic coast?
9. How did Treuer describe the Ojibwe and their beginnings?
10. What is the book about?
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