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Native American Assessment

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What answer BEST fits the phrase "people who are building a longhouse"?

a)

The Sioux

b)

Eskimos

c)

The Haudenosaunee

d)

The Pueblos

2.

What animal was key to the survival of Great Plains cultures?

a)

Antelope

b)

Moose

c)

Cattle

d)

Buffalo

3.

How did the first Americans arrive to North America?

a)

By walking over a suspension bridge.

b)

By sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.

c)

By walking on top of glaciers from Greenland.

d)

By walking across a land bridge.

4.

Why did the first Americans come to the Americas?

a)

They were chased out of their homeland during a war.

b)

They were following their food.

c)

They could not afford taxes and rent in their homeland.

d)

The climate grew hotter and ruined all of their farming crops.

5.

How did the dozens of Great Plains tribes communicate with one another?

a)

Passing hand written notes.

b)

Using different flags.

c)

They all spoke the same language.

d)

They used sign language.

6.

What Native American cultural region is highlighted in green on this map?

a)

Desert Southwest

b)

Northeastern Woodlands

c)

Arctic/Tundra

d)

Great Plains

7.

What answer BEST explains why Great Plains tribes lived in tepees?

a)

So they could follow the herds of animals quickly.

b)

Tepees were the warmest dwellings on the Great Plains.

c)

Tepees provided the best defense against tornadoes and wind storms.

d)

Tepees were very large and could comfortably fit several families.

8.

Which answer BEST fits the Iroquois dwelling type?

a)
b)
c)
d)
9.

Which answer BEST describes the information below:

* farmed

*heads of clans

*chose the leaders

a)

Great Plains warriors

b)

Eskimo hunters

c)

Pueblo medicine men

d)

Iroquois women

10.

What map BEST corresponds with the Iroquois culture?

a)
b)
c)
d)
11.

Where does the word "Cheektowaga" come from?

a)

The Iroquois language

b)

The Greek language

c)

The Sioux language

d)

The Pueblo language

12.

What answer BEST describes ALL Native American cultures?

a)

Hunter/Gatherers

b)

Nomadic

c)

Resourceful

d)

Peaceful

13.

What conclusion can be made about the Iroquois based on this map?

a)

The Iroquois were wiped out during the 1800's by European invaders.

b)

The Iroquois had a proud, rich culture until the 1700's when they vanished due to climate change and drought.

c)

The Iroquois culture is alive and well in 2025.

d)

Sadly, the Iroquois are extinct due to constant warfare with other tribes.

14.

What term BEST fits this image?

a)

Artifact

b)

Secondary Source

c)

Culture

d)

Atlatl

15.

What field of study BEST relates to this image?

a)

History

b)

Archaeology

c)

Economics

d)

Civics

16.

What answer BEST relates to this image?

a)

Primary Source

b)

Artifact

c)

Secondary Source

d)

Bias

17.

What answer BEST fits this statement: "Before European cultures arrived, all Native American peoples were considered _____________________________."

a)

peaceful.

b)

nomads.

c)

hunter-gatherers.

d)

prehistoric.

18.

What answer BEST fits the term Pueblo?

a)
b)
c)
d)
19.

What answer BEST explains why the five tribes of the Iroquois united?

a)

To defend themselves against the Spanish.

b)

To stop fighting amongst themselves.

c)

To defeat their enemy the Pueblos.

d)

To gain more workers for building the Erie Canal.

20.

What answer BEST corresponds with this image?

a)

The Farming Family

b)

The Tremendous Trio

c)

The Cousin Crops

d)

The Three Sisters

21.

What is another name for an Iroquois chief?

a)

Honcho

b)

Jefe

c)

Sachem

d)

Kahuna

22.

When did the first Americans arrive in North America?

a)

The Dark Ages

b)

The Jurassic Age

c)

The Early Renaissance

d)

The Last Ice Age

23.

What answer BEST relates to the information below:

*Native Americans were great speakers/orators

*Native American storytelling

a)

Oral History

b)

Archaeology

c)

Economics

d)

Civics

24.

What answer BEST matches a resource the Iroquois would have used to survive?

a)
b)
c)
d)
25.

Analyze this diagram of an Iroquois village. What number in the key contains the resources firewood and deer meat?

a)

3

b)

5

c)

6

d)

1

26.

Complete this sentence: "What Native American cultures ate, how they dressed, and what they lived in was due to their _________________________

a)

ancestors

b)

environment/location

c)

spiritual beliefs

d)

advanced technology.

27.

What answer BEST matches a resource an Eskimo would have used living in the Arctic/Far North region?

a)
b)
c)
d)
28.

What answer BEST matches a resource a Pueblo Indian would have used living in the desert southwest?

a)
b)
c)
d)

29.

What answer BEST matches the dwelling type of an Inuit Indian in the Arctic/Far North?

a)
b)
c)
d)
30.

What Iroquois tribe lived, and still lives, right here in Western New York?

a)

The Algonquian

b)

The Sioux

c)

The Inuit

d)

The Seneca

31.

What dwelling type is associated with the Eskimo cultures of the Arctic?

a)

b)

c)

d)

32.

What natural resource would have been used by the Seminole culture of the Gulf Coast/Florida?

a)

b)

c)

d)

33.

Before the Europeans arrived, how did Native Americans cultures pass down their histories from generation to generation?

a)

Through oral history and the telling of stories.

b)

By digitally collecting them on computers.

c)

By writing them down in textbooks and constitutions.

d)

By taking pictures and videos of their culture for future generations.

34.

Which answer below is an example of a TRAVOIS?

a)

b)

c)

d)

35.

Which of the following Native American cultural regions would have built this stilthouse?

a)

Eastern Woodlands

b)

Arctic

c)

Great Plains

d)

Gulf Coast/Florida