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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chatper 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Captain Healy stopped his ship along the Alaskan coast, what did he find in the villages?
(a) Sick people.
(b) Mostly dead people.
(c) Thriving businesses.
(d) Americans working with natives.

2. Who was the company's representative to the Aleutian Islands?
(a) Cidaq.
(b) Yermak Rudenko.
(c) Aleksandr Baranov.
(d) Lunmasaq.

3. Varnak's people became known as _________.
(a) Lapakians.
(b) Aluits.
(c) Aleutians.
(d) Eskimos.

4. What did the Indians think of the Americans in the settlement on Sitka?
(a) They wanted to befriend them.
(b) They made plans to attack them.
(c) They were afraid of them.
(d) They wanted to protect them.

5. Alaska was joined to what land mass during the Ice Age?
(a) Canada.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Africa.
(d) Australia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who commissioned Vitus Bering as captain?

2. Where did the Americans in the settlement go for help?

3. What eventually happened to the land bridge?

4. How large was Beringia?

5. Why did Tsar Peter Romanov want Trofin Zhdanko?

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