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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Author's Note-Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Europeans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries learn techniques used for long-distance sea travel?
(a) From West Asian nations.
(b) From Arab nations.
(c) From African nations.
(d) From East Asian nations.

2. What term is used to describe the historical and cultural region encompassing North America?
(a) Pseudoamerica.
(b) Primitive America.
(c) Ancient America.
(d) Mesoamerica.

3. What became of the descendants of European peasants who were exploited and thrown off their land?
(a) Many became European aristocracy.
(b) Many chose to open their own business.
(c) Many became settler-colonists in the Americas.
(d) Many chose to move to Asian and African regions.

4. How does corn differ from most grains?
(a) It cannot be eaten raw.
(b) It cannot grow in the wild.
(c) It germinates beneath the soil.
(d) It's harvested by flooding the land.

5. What term was used for Muslims who converted to Christianity?
(a) The Redeemed.
(b) The Moriscos.
(c) The Conversos.
(d) The Transmuted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the the use of economic and political pressures to control foreign countries?

2. What term, designed to "diffuse the locus of guilt" (4), does Bernard Sheehan use to describe Native-Euro-American relations?

3. How did the European aristocracy treat women in their society?

4. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what drove colonialization projects in the 1600s?

5. Which stone did the Aztecs consider especially precious?

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