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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where nations did the Ulster-Scots originate from?
(a) Scotland and England.
(b) Scotland and Ireland.
(c) Scotland and Wales.
(d) Scotland and Germany.

2. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for land as a commodity?
(a) Real estate.
(b) Freeholds.
(c) Settler plots.
(d) Territories.

3. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, when did human societies develop agriculture?
(a) 5,000 years ago.
(b) 12,000 years ago.
(c) 7,000 years ago.
(d) 10,000 years ago.

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

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

6. Dunbar-Ortiz argues that Europeans colonists conquered what, rather than land?
(a) Animals.
(b) People.
(c) Oceans.
(d) Dreams.

7. What term, coined in the 1940s, describes the systemic annihilation of a group of people?
(a) Termination.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Erasure.
(d) Extinction.

8. In U.S. settler colonialism, what was the primary commodity?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Land.
(c) Gold.
(d) Horses.

9. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, which Christian denomination represented the "elite" in the Colonial era?
(a) Baptists.
(b) Episcopalians.
(c) Quakers.
(d) Pentecostals.

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

11. What term does anthropologist Michael Wilcox use to describe the historical tendency to gloss over the "disappearance" of native people?
(a) Final narratives.
(b) Ultimate narratives.
(c) Terminal narratives.
(d) Closing narratives.

12. According to Dunbar Ortiz, white supremacy became an integral part of which religion's ideology?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Judaism.

13. Which of the following tribes was a member of the Six Nations of the Iroquois confederacy?
(a) The Cahuilla.
(b) The Navajo.
(c) The Seneca.
(d) The Sioux.

14. How did the European aristocracy treat women in their society?
(a) Women were allowed to attend universities and gain degrees.
(b) Women were often accused of witchcraft and executed.
(c) Women were allowed to vote and hold political office.
(d) Women were often sent abroad and served as soldiers.

15. What term, designed to "diffuse the locus of guilt" (4), does Bernard Sheehan use to describe Native-Euro-American relations?
(a) Interracial conflict.
(b) Regional conflict.
(c) Relational conflict.
(d) Cultural conflict.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Christian denomination did most Calvinists belong to?

2. What term does Dunbar-Ortiz use for the specific type of colonialism used to form the United States?

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

4. During the onset of colonialism, the native population in the Americas rapidly shrank. By what percentage were native populations reduced?

5. What became of the descendants of European peasants who were exploited and thrown off their land?

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