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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the Native leader known as "the Prophet"?
(a) Tenskawatawa.
(b) Little Wolf.
(c) Little Crow.
(d) Tecumseh.

2. What was the first book in the Leatherstocking Tales series?
(a) The Pathfinder.
(b) The Pioneers.
(c) The Prairie.
(d) The Deerslayers.

3. What belief structure promoted the idea that human societies were subject to "natural selection"?
(a) Social Darwinism.
(b) Human selectionism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Communism.

4. Who was the governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War?
(a) Ulysses Grant.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Benjamin Hawkins.
(d) John Murray.

5. Who wrote the novel The Last of the Mohicans?
(a) D.H. Lawrence.
(b) James Fenimore Cooper.
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(d) Stephen Crane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea suggested that late nineteenth-century social problems were the result of the closing of the Western frontier?

2. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, where was "the pseudoscience of eugenics and racial purity" (170) particularly robust in the 1920s?

3. What year did Texas become a U.S. state?

4. What name was given to the Guardians of the Oglala Nation?

5. What year were Israel and South Africa founded?

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