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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the outcome of the Treaty of Paris?
(a) France claimed Canada and all western territories within the Americans.
(b) France ceded Canada and the territory east of the Mississippi to the British.
(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.

4. What Christian denomination did most Calvinists belong to?
(a) Methodism.
(b) Presbyterianism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Lutherenism.

5. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, who were the "foot soldiers of the British Empire building" (52)?
(a) The English peasantry.
(b) The Irish Catholics.
(c) The German peasantry.
(d) The Scots-Irish.

6. According to the Dunbar-Ortiz, which population was the first to be forcibly organized and exploited by European aristocracy?
(a) European peasantry.
(b) Western Africans.
(c) Southeast Asians.
(d) Native Caribbean.

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

8. What form of warfare did Major General Jeffery Amherst infamously support using against Native people?
(a) Germ warfare.
(b) Chemical warfare.
(c) Psychological warfare.
(d) Blockade warfare.

9. What was the name of the first governing document of Plymouth Colony?
(a) The Bill of Rights.
(b) The Mayflower Compact.
(c) The Declaration of Independence.
(d) The Federalist Papers.

10. What term is used for the Acadian diaspora that took place in the mid-1700s?
(a) The Great Disruption.
(b) The Great Trouble.
(c) The Great Upheaval.
(d) The Great Exodus.

11. According to Dunbar-Ortiz, what drove colonialization projects in the 1600s?
(a) European wars.
(b) Missionary projects.
(c) Housing prices.
(d) Gold fever.

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

13. What country did John Locke and John Knox hail from?
(a) Wales.
(b) Scotland.
(c) England.
(d) Ireland.

14. During the onset of colonialism, the native population in the Americas rapidly shrank. By what percentage were native populations reduced?
(a) 90%.
(b) 70%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 60%.

15. How did Native communities make important decisions?
(a) Elected official decided for the group.
(b) Women and elders took a vote.
(c) Their priests made all decisions.
(d) They sought a group consensus.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Smith convinced Powhatan leaders to feed and clothe English settlers. How did he achieve this?

2. How does corn differ from most grains?

3. According to Dunbar Ortiz, white supremacy became an integral part of which religion's ideology?

4. What percentage of the population of the Thirteen Colonies was made up of Ulster-Scots?

5. What term was used for the "systemic destruction of all the indigenous agricultural resources" (61)?

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