The American Center Monthly Quiz - November 2009

Thank you for participating in our monthly quiz for November, 2009. The answers for this quiz are going to be highlighted beginning Thursday, November 26, 2009. Everyone is invited to participate.

1. When European Explorers arrived in America in 1492, they mistakenly called the indigenous people Indians because:
   
   A.     They heard that Indians had already settled in the New Land
   B.     They thought they had landed in the Indies in the Far East of Asia
   C.     The people they met first look like Indians
   D.     The indigenous people put feathers on their heads
   
   

2. What was the first Native American tribe encountered by Christopher Columbus?
   
   A.     Apache Warriors
   B.     Cherokees
   C.     Island Arawaks
   D.     Sioux Indians
   
   
3. Native American religious leaders were called:
   
   A.     Chiefs
   B.     Earth Gods
   C.     Priests
   D.     Shamans
   
   
4. Which Native American chief’s daughter saved the life of early settler Captain John Smith?
   
   A.     Pocahontas
   B.     Minnehaha
   C.     Maria Tallchief
   D.     Sacagawea
   
   
5. Who created The North American Indian, a collection of narratives and about 2,000 photographs, one of the most significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced?
   
   A.     Edward S. Curtis
   B.     Edward Hopper
   C.     Frederic Remington
   D.     Ansel Adams
   
   
6. Which of the following U.S. State names are NOT related to Native American tribe or language?
   
   A.     Mississippi, Ohio, Connecticut
   B.     Nebraska, Kentucky, Massachusetts
   C.     Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas
   D.     Pennsylvania, Florida, Vermont
   
   
7. An American Indian woman notable for having assisted colonial settlers at Jamestown (in present-day Virginia) and married the English settler John Rolfe:
   
   A.     Pocahontas
   B.     Zitkala-Sa
   C.     Queen Liliuokalani
   D.     Sacagawea
   
   
8. The founders of the United States assumed the national symbol of the bald eagle from:
   
   A.     The Apache Nation
   B.     The Iroquois Nation
   C.     The Cherokee Nation
   D.     The Ojibwa (Chippewa) Nation
   
   
9. What group of Native Americans was least influenced by European civilization prior to the 20th century?
   
   A.     Aztec
   B.     Navajo
   C.     Eskimo
   D.     Mohican
   
   
10. Which U.S. president implemented the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
    
    A.     Abraham Lincoln
    B.     Thomas Jefferson
    C.     John Quincy Adams
    D.     Andrew Jackson
    

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The next quiz will be on Saturday, December 19, 2009.