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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were Jackson and Healy trying to prevent?

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

4. What made the large bodies of ice move?

5. What is a peninsula?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Old One's character like in Chapter 5?

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

3. What was Cidaq's motivation in Chapter 5, and how did she use it?

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. What did the Tlingits want in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

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

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

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