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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. How many square miles do the Great Plains cover?
(a) 1.3 milliion.
(b) 750,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 2 million.

2. In 1495, how many Indians did Columbus ship back to Spain for sale?
(a) 620.
(b) 550.
(c) 480.
(d) 390.

3. From what Indian tribe is Kevin Washburn from?
(a) Chickasaw.
(b) Paiute.
(c) Apache.
(d) Delaware.

4. How long did Canada have a boarding school system for Indians?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1980s.

5. When would Treuer's father drive Indian kids to Bemidji and then bring them home again?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1953.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many students died at the Carlisle school?

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

3. When did Sam Cleveland join the Army?

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

5. When was the first Homestead Act passed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the book about?

3. Why was Kevin Washburn a believer in tribal self-determination and self-governance from early in his life?

4. Who survived the massacre at Wounded Knee, and what did they go on to do?

5. What was allotment?

6. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, how was the North American continent divided?

7. What was the Indian Reorganization Act?

8. How did the Cherokee and other tribes take advantage of the Homestead Act?

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

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

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