Multiple Choice Questions

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Multiple Choice Questions

• (p. 4) Most modern archeologists would agree that the earliest inhabitants of the Western

Hemisphere came from which of the following areas of the world?

• Europe
• South America
• Asia
• the Arctic

• (p. 4) About 15,000 years ago BP, which land bridge was used by migrants to cross between

Siberia and Alaska?

• Bering Strait
• Alaskan Strait
• Siberian Strait
• Straits of Asia

• (p. 5) Which group was the first to build cities in the New World?
• Aztecs
• Olmecs
• Toltecs
• Mayas

• (p. 7) Both the Mogollon and the Hohokam peoples of the American Southwest tended to

build their dwellings near which of the following?

• other villages
• mountains
• streams
• sacred sites

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• (p. 7) Which of the following groups lived in what is now known as the Four Corners region

of the United States?

• Woodlands
• Hohokam
• Ancestral Pueblo
• Aztecs

• (p. 7) The Mogollon, the Hohokam, and the Ancestral Pueblo were North American cultures

from which region of the United States?

• Eastern Woodlands
• Southwest
• Great Plains
• Great Basin

• (p. 8) The Mississippian people were a culture from the
• Eastern Woodlands.
• Pacific Northwest.
• Great Plains.
• Great Basin.

• (p. 9) The Numic-speaking peoples were from which geographic region?
• Eastern Woodlands
• Pacific Northwest
• Great Plains
• Great Basin

• (p. 9) Which of the following peoples lived in a society with deep divisions among nobles,

commoners, and slaves?

• Subarctic
• Pacific Northwest
• Great Basin
• Eastern Woodlands
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• (p. 10) The inhabitants of which region moved from their summer fishing camps to berry

patches in the fall, and to moose- and caribou-hunting groups in the winter?

• Eastern Woodlands
• Subarctic
• Great Plains
• Pacific Northwest

• (p. 11-12) Recently, scholars have begun to find evidence of incredible manipulations of

landscapes and environments in the least likely of places,

• the canyons of the Southwest.
• the area now known as Mexico City.
• the Amazon rainforest.
• the Subarctic.

• (p. 15) Which of the following, built around 1300, contained more than 2,000 rooms and had

a water and sewage-removal system?

• Navajos
• Ancestral Pueblo
• Paquime
• Pueblos

• (p. 16) The Muskogean speakers rejected hierarchical societies in favor of egalitarian ones as

they matured into three great southeastern confederacies, the

• Iroquois, Algonquian, and Mohawk.
• Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw.
• Chickasaw, Mohicans, and Iroquois.
• Choctaw, Creek, and Apache.
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• (p. 16) The distinctive feature of Iroquois and Huron architecture was not the temple mound,

but the

• pueblo.
• tipi.
• longhouse.
• wigwam.

• (p. 16) The Algonquians were part of which cultural group?
• Eastern Woodlands
• Subarctic
• Great Plains
• Southwestern

• (p. 13) One of the major logistical obstacles that hindered New World agriculture and

advancement in comparison to the Old World was

• religion.
• culture.
• communication and technology.
• illness.

Fill in the Blank Questions

• (p. 4) In the 1830s and 1840s, Americans sought to drive Indians ________ of the

Mississippi.west

• (p. 5) Between 10,000 and 2,500 years ago, many regional ________ developed among the

peoples of the Americas.cultures

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