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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Trofin got to Okhotsk?
(a) To assassinate someone .
(b) To hunt.
(c) To build a ship.
(d) To escape from the Tsar.

2. What items were traded for pelts?
(a) Meat.
(b) Rum and rifles.
(c) Beads.
(d) Slaves.

3. Varnak's people wandered for how many years?
(a) 19.
(b) 25.
(c) 40.
(d) 3.

4. How high were summer temperatures?
(a) 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

5. What arrived to help the Americans?
(a) A warship.
(b) A group of soldiers .
(c) Weapons.
(d) More food.

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

7. What were Jackson and Healy trying to prevent?
(a) A structured government.
(b) The provision of rum to the natives.
(c) Friendship between the Americans and the natives.
(d) War.

8. Where did Varnak originate?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Canada.
(c) Japan.
(d) Alaska.

9. What formed over time?
(a) More land bridges.
(b) Ice and snow.
(c) Whirlpools.
(d) More islands.

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

11. What was the mastodon?
(a) A reptile.
(b) An animal similar to an elephant.
(c) A type of hill.
(d) A tall ship.

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

13. What was happening to the fur trade?
(a) It was very lucrative.
(b) It was disappearing rapidly.
(c) It was opening doors for other types of trading.
(d) It remained constant.

14. Whom did Zhdanko exchange gifts with when he landed on the island?
(a) The governor.
(b) Catherine the Great.
(c) An Aleut.
(d) Tsar Peter.

15. How did the Tlingits respond when they saw the help arrive?
(a) They left the area.
(b) They fought.
(c) They persuaded the Americans that they never meant to cause harm.
(d) They stole the food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Organic Act do?

2. Who commissioned Vitus Bering as captain?

3. How long did it take to get to Okhotsk?

4. What did Lieutenant Ermelov think of Baranov?

5. What were the mastadons' chief enemy?

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