Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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What are items (such as pottery shards, weapons, tools, jewelry) once used by
ancient peoples called?
a. | antiques | b. | artifacts | c. | fossils | d. | heirlooms |
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According to the map, how far south did the people who came to North America via
the Bering Strait move?
a. | They moved as far south as Mexico. | b. | They moved as far south as
Canada. | c. | They moved as far south as Guatemala. | d. | They moved as far south as the United
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Which statement describes geographic conditions in North America when early
people migrated from Asia?
a. | There was more dry land than there is today. | b. | There was abundant
food to support more people. | c. | There were no mountains to hinder the movement
of people. | d. | There was a system of rivers and streams to permit easy
travel. |
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What was the name of the era in which the first American Indians lived?
a. | Archaic Indian Era | b. | Mississippian Indian Era | c. | Paleo Indian
Era | d. | Pre-Projectile Point Era |
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Which time period included the moundbuilders?
a. | Archaic period | b. | Mississippian period | c. | Paleo
period | d. | Woodland period |
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Which time period was the last of the prehistoric eras?
a. | Archaic period | b. | Mississippian period | c. | Paleo
period | d. | Woodland period |
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Why did diseases, like smallpox, affect American Indians more than
Europeans?
a. | Europeans had been vaccinated against the diseases. | b. | Europeans had a
natural immunity to the various diseases. | c. | The American Indians had no prior exposure to
the diseases. | d. | The poverty-like conditions in which the American Indians lived caused the diseases
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The Origin of Earth
A Cherokee Myth
The earth is a
great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord
hanging down from the sky vault, which is of solid rock. When the world grows old and worn out, the
people will die and the chords will break and let the earth sink down into the ocean, and all will be
water again. The Indians are afraid of this . . . .
When the animals and plants were first
made--we do not know by whom--they were told to watch and keep awake for seven nights. . . . They
tried to do this, and nearly all were awake through the first night, but the next night, several
dropped off to sleep, and the third night, others were asleep, and then others, until on the seventh
night, of all the animals only the owl, the panther, and one or two more were still awake. To these
were given the power to see and go about in the dark, and to make prey of the birds and animals which
must sleep at night. Of the trees, only the cedar, the pine, and spruce, the holly and the laurel
were awake to the end, and to them it was given to be always green and to be greatest for medicine,
but to the others it was said: “Because you have not endured to the end, you shall lose your
hair every winter.”
Source: James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas
of the Cherokee (Nashville: Charles and Randy Elder, 1982), pp. 239-240. | |
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Based on the Cherokee myth, why are cedars, pines, spruces, hollys, and laurels
evergreen?
a. | They were resting places of the owls. | b. | They remained awake for seven
nights. | c. | They were the tallest of the trees on Earth. | d. | They received most
of the water they needed from the ocean. |
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Which statement BEST describes the Indian population of South Carolina
when the Europeans arrived?
a. | There were very few Indians. | b. | Indians numbered in the
millions. | c. | The number of Indians in present-day Mexico was less than that in present-day South
Carolina. | d. | There were more Indians in what is now South Carolina than in any other area of North
America. |
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What was the overall organization of a Native American society called?
a. | clan | b. | family | c. | region | d. | tribe |
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What European country financed Columbus’ voyages?
a. | England | b. | France | c. | Italy | d. | Spain |
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Which factor contributed the LEAST to the decrease in the Indian
population?
a. | disease | b. | migration | c. | slavery | d. | war |
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Completion
Complete each
statement.
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Scientists who study the origin and development of man are called
____________________.
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The most popular scientific theory states that the ancestors of the American
Indians of South Carolina and the rest of the Western Hemisphere came from ____________________ in
Asia.
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Indians used the _______________________________________ as an occasion for
washing away impurities and getting a new start.
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Indians used ___________________ as a way of trading with the Europeans.
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Matching
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Match the vocabulary word in Column A with its definition in Column B. a. | autonomy | f. | midden | b. | daub | g. | mythology | c. | exploit | h. | nomadic | d. | maize | i. | palisade | e. | matrilineal | j. | technology |
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a society in which ancestry is traced through the mother
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18.
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wandering
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19.
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trash heap left by prehistoric people
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clay or mud used to fill gaps between posts to build a cabin
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