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

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

3. 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 he didn't want them to supply them.
(c) He was hesitant.
(d) He told Corey that they must continue supplying the materials at all costs.

4. Why did Tsar Peter Romanov want Trofin Zhdanko?
(a) To ask for his help.
(b) To hire him to assassinate someone.
(c) To kill him.
(d) To taunt him while he was in prison.

5. How many days did it take to build their ship?
(a) 200.
(b) 98.
(c) 30.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the family go?

2. How did the Tlingits respond when they saw the help arrive?

3. Why did Varnak's family move?

4. Trofkins team came from all the countries listed except for __________.

5. What eventually happened to the land bridge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Tlingits want in Chapter 7?

2. What was the significance of the fur pelts in Chapter 4?

3. How did Chapter 4 highlight some of the cruelty involved in the fur trade business?

4. What was so important about the protuberance in the northwest corner of what was to become North America that the author mentioned in Chapter 1?

5. Where did the animals come from and go to in Chapter 2?

6. What is a land bridge? How was it significant in Chapter 1?

7. How is the mastodon related to the elephant?

8. How did the ice age affect the land that was to become Alaska?

9. How did the Indians react to the invasion of Russians?

10. How were the natives perceived by the Russians?

(see the answer keys)

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