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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Purgatory: 1891-1934.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what century did Leif Eriksson explore the northern Atlantic littoral?
(a) 13th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 11th.
(d) 12th.

2. How many Lakota survived Wounded Knee?
(a) About 300.
(b) More than 200.
(c) 230.
(d) 175.

3. When were the last compulsory boarding school programs suspended?
(a) Late 1920s.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1938.
(d) Late 1930s.

4. When did Columbus make a fourth voyage to the Caribbean?
(a) 1500.
(b) 1509.
(c) 1511.
(d) 1502.

5. When were the Nez Perce forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oregon to Idaho?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1879.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Jack Wilson have a vision of the Ghost Dance?

2. When was the battle of the Little Bighorn?

3. Where were at least 150 Lakota Sioux killed in South Dakota?

4. What Indians fought during the Revolutionary War and brought supplies and support to Washington and his troops when they were starving at Valley Forge?

5. How old was Treuer's grandmother when she was sent to Tomah Indian Industrial School in Tomah, Wisconsin?

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