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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used by the U.S. military to describe areas behind enemy lines?
(a) Indian Country.
(b) Hostile Territory.
(c) No-Man's Land.
(d) War Council.

2. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for the specific type of colonialism used to form the United States?
(a) Surrogate colonialism.
(b) Settler colonialism.
(c) Exploitation colonialism.
(d) Imperialist colonialism.

3. How did the European aristocracy characterize the peasants who resisted the privatization of land?
(a) As intelligent, savvy, and cunning.
(b) As brave, courageous, and capable.
(c) As greedy, selfish, and avaricious.
(d) As violent, lazy, and stupid.

4. What was the outcome of the Treaty of Paris?
(a) France ceded Canada and the territory east of the Mississippi to the British.
(b) France claimed Canada and all western territories within the Americans.
(c) Britain reclaimed all territories within the Americas from France and Spain.
(d) Britain ceded Canada and territory west of the Mississippi to the French.

5. What Native term was used as a code name during the assassination of Osama Bin Laden?
(a) Tomahawk.
(b) Thunderbird.
(c) Teepee.
(d) Geronimo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Latin term for "land without people" (2)?

2. What other name was used for the Seven Years' War?

3. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for land as a commodity?

4. What form of warfare did Major General Jeffery Amherst infamously support using against Native people?

5. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, who were the "foot soldiers of the British Empire building" (52)?

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