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Lenni Lenape Quizziz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Ancestors of the Lenape once lived in

a)

Mexico

b)

Africa

c)

Australia

d)

Asia

2.

The first people to come to New Jersey arrived about...

a)

120 years ago

b)

1,200 years ago

c)

12,000 years ago

d)

120,000 years ago

3.

The FIRST Natives lived in...

a)

longhouses

b)

tents made of animal skin or caves

c)

wigwams

d)

huts made of grass

4.

The Lenape built their homes out of...

a)

brick

b)

stone

c)

saplings and bark

d)

large trees

5.

Lenape Women and girls...

a)

hunted

b)

fished

c)

built the longhouses

d)

planted gardens and gathered food

6.

The Lenape made their clothes from...

a)

skins of animals

b)

cotton

c)

wool

d)

clothing given to them by explorers

7.

Phratries were made up of...

a)

villages

b)

hunting groups

c)

wood

d)

clans

8.

The Lenape Indians in New Jersey were made up of...

a)

2 or 3 phratries

b)

4 phratries

c)

5 phratries

d)

6 phratries

9.

A sachem is

a)

a symbol of the phratry

b)

the chief of the phratry

c)

a member of the phratry

d)

a type of hat

10.

A child of the Lenape always became members of their ...

a)

Mother's sachem

b)

Mother's phratry

c)

Father's clan

d)

Father's phratry

11.

The Lenape worshipped...

a)

plants

b)

animals

c)

their sachem

d)

a great spirit or creator

12.

Lenape often built their villages near....

a)

rivers, streams, and forests

b)

other phratries

c)

mountains

d)

large cities

13.

The Indians moved their villages from time to time because...

a)

They got sick

b)

They were forced out

c)

they ran out of resources

d)

they got bored

14.

The Lenape became weak after the European Settlers arrived because...

a)

the Europeans hated them

b)

the Europeans brought disease and used up their resources

c)

there was a war

d)

the settlers forced them off their land

15.

Which one is NOT a place that is named after a Native American tribe?

a)

Paramus

b)

Hackensack

c)

Saddle Brook

d)

Ramapo