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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 were the Nez Perce forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oregon to Idaho?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1877.

2. How many acres of land may have been irrigated by the Hohokam?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 55,000.
(d) 18,000.

3. How many more times likely were Native students to drop out of house school than whites?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. About how large is Leech Lake Reservation?
(a) 50 by 50 miles.
(b) 60 by 60 miles.
(c) 30 by 30 miles.
(d) 40 by 40 miles.

5. When did Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) land on the mainland of North America?
(a) 1490.
(b) 1497.
(c) 1483.
(d) 1488.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did thousands of Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Choctaw, and Chicasaw families move to from Oklahoma and became homesteaders?

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

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

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

5. During what century did Leif Eriksson explore the northern Atlantic littoral?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Leech Lake Reservation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the book about?

9. What did Indian Rights groups in the 1880s say about the reservation system?

10. What were the Hopewell cutlures and how did they bury their dead?

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