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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the remaining islanders survive?
(a) By hunting for mammoth.
(b) By hunting for whales.
(c) By eating berries.
(d) By planting gardens.

2. Where did a land bridge form?
(a) Between Alaska and the Arctic Circle.
(b) Between Alaska and Canada.
(c) Between Alaska and Asia.
(d) Between Alaska and Australia.

3. What job did Mrs. Caldwell have?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Preacher's wife.
(c) Post-mistress.
(d) Milk maid.

4. When the plates shifted, how many continents could they have attached to?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) One.

5. Who took the people from the island?
(a) Russian hunters.
(b) Russian tradesmen.
(c) Siberian tradesmen.
(d) Siberian hunters.

6. To whom did Russia plan to sell Alaska?
(a) Canada.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) Japan.

7. Who commissioned Vitus Bering as captain?
(a) Catherine the Great.
(b) He was self appointed.
(c) Trofin Bhdanko.
(d) Tsar Peter Romanov.

8. What happened to Custom House revenues at Sitka after the Americans took control of Alaska?
(a) They steadily increased.
(b) They increased dramatically.
(c) They stayed the same.
(d) The dropped.

9. What type of business did Zhdanko work in?
(a) Shipping.
(b) Banking.
(c) Expeditions.
(d) Fur trading.

10. What happened to the shaman who tried to help Cidaq?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Rudenko killed him.
(c) He was sent to prison.
(d) Baranov beat him.

11. What strengthened the relationship between Rudenko and Baranov?
(a) Sailing together.
(b) Working together.
(c) Polar bear hunting.
(d) Time in prayer.

12. Baranov's house was used as a __________.
(a) Fort.
(b) Store.
(c) Meeting place.
(d) Hospital.

13. Why did Cidaq become a Christian?
(a) She was always drawn to Christianity.
(b) Vasili Voronov persuaded her to.
(c) She liked to pray.
(d) To absolve herself of her past.

14. How large was Beringia?
(a) 6000 miles wide.
(b) 600 miles wide.
(c) 2 miles wide.
(d) 100 miles wide.

15. What did Baranov think about supplying rum and guns to the natives?
(a) He told Corey it would be a wise investment.
(b) He told Corey that they must continue supplying the materials at all costs.
(c) He was hesitant.
(d) He told Corey that he didn't want them to supply them.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Captain Healy stopped his ship along the Alaskan coast, what did he find in the villages?

2. What did the Indians think of the Americans in the settlement on Sitka?

3. What was the mastodon?

4. What made the large bodies of ice move?

5. Alaska was joined to what land mass during the Ice Age?

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