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

2. What did Baranov want to build for Voronov?
(a) A house.
(b) A synagogue.
(c) A boat.
(d) An onion dome church.

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

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

5. Who departed Alaska in 1877?
(a) The Americans.
(b) The Tlingit Indians.
(c) Army troops.
(d) The Eskimos.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the barriers were removed, animals emigrated between _________.

2. What items were traded for pelts?

3. Where did Oogruk and his family settle?

4. Who commissioned Vitus Bering as captain?

5. What happened to Custom House revenues at Sitka after the Americans took control of Alaska?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did food factor into Oogruk's story in Chapter 3?

5. How did Trofin Zhdanko escape his imprisonment?

6. Where did Oogruk come from? How did he and his family live?

7. How did things change when America took control of Alaska?

8. How did the rum trading affect the Tlingits?

9. How was Cidaq treated in Chapter 5?

10. How were the natives perceived by the Russians?

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