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Chapter 1 Quiz on Early American History

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A rectangular shelter build by the Iroquois.

a)

Hogan

b)

longhouse

c)

kiva

d)

igloo

2.

A navajo home that was dome-shaped and made of wooden poles, tree bark, and mud.

a)

hogan

b)

igloo

c)

pueblo

d)

kiva

3.

An American Indian village of the Southwest made of stone and adobe buildings built very close together.

a)

hogan

b)

pueblo

c)

kiva

d)

longhouse

4.

a special room in a pueblo that was set aside for religious activities

a)

kiva

b)

hogan

c)

pueblo

d)

longhouse

5.

What is a dome shaped house made of blocks of snow and ice or sod that was build by the nomadic Inuits?

a)

Olmec

b)

Aztec

c)

igloo

d)

hogan

6.

In what culture area did the Navajos and the Pueblos live?

a)

Pacific Northwest

b)

Arctic

c)

Southwest

d)

California

7.

In what culture area did the Cherokees live?

a)

Plains

b)

Plateau

c)

Southeast Woodlands

d)

Northwest Woodlands

8.

Which describes the Nez Perces tribe?

a)

named by the French settlers

b)

followed buffalo herds

c)

name means "pierced nose"

d)

lived on the plateau

9.

What suggest that the earliest Americans were hunters?

a)

tomols

b)

clovis points

c)

potlatches

d)

totem poles

10.

What did the Iroquois sometimes use as money?

a)

wampum

b)

wattle and daub

c)

clovis points

d)

tomol

11.

A frame used by Native Americans to carry babies on their backs was called a Wattle and daub.

a)

true

b)

false

12.

Customs, beliefs, creative arts, and institutions of a group of people are called culture

a)

True

b)

False

13.

An archeologist is a person who looks for natural resources in order to study past human cultures.

a)

False

b)

True

14.

Early Americans fulfilled the Creation Mandate by filling and ruling over North America

a)

True

b)

False

15.

The first Americans may have come by crossing the Bering Strait.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

How did Shamanism conflict with the Christian worldview.

(a)  

17.

What is the area next to the Southeast Woodlands?

a)

Arctic

b)

Northeast Woodlands

18.

What is the area next to the Great Basin

a)

Great Plains

b)

Northeast Woodlands

19.

What is the area next to the plateau/Great Basin

a)

Great Plains

b)

California

20.

What is the area next to the Subarctic?

a)

Arctic

b)

California