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Wilderness And The American Mind
Test Description: American attitudes on wilderness and geography.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) In which colony did the starving period take place?
A
Jamestown
B
Salem
C
Roanoke
D
Plymouth
2) Which of the following colonies disappeared?
A
Roanoke
B
Jamestown
C
Salem
D
Plymouth
3) In which colony did the witch trials take place?
A
Salem
B
Jamestown
C
Roanoke
D
Plymouth
4) In what time period was the wilderness viewed as evil, savage, and scary?
A
1800-1900
B
1700-1800
C
1600-1700
D
1900-2000
5) Which of the following is NOT an example of the colonial perspective of wilderness?
A
Young Goodman Brown
B
The Crucible
C
The Oxbow
D
The Scarlet Letter
6) What did the early colonists call native Americans?
A
Savages
B
Native Americans
C
Noble
D
Indians
7) Which of the following best explains why the colonial attitude shifted and the west quickly expanded?
A
The colonists defeated the devil, driving him from the wilderness forever.
B
Settlers began making money off of cleared and cultivated land.
C
The Native Americans were already pushed into reservations.
D
Global warming began and more light filtered into the dark twisted forest
8) What was an analogy for cultivate in the late 1700s and early 1800s?
A
The Garden of Eden
B
Europe
C
Rolling hills
D
Farm and pastoral land
9) In 1803, which one of the following more than doubled the size of the United States?
A
The Lousiana Purchase
B
The Mexican-American War
C
Annexation of Texas
D
The Gold Rush
10) What were Lewis and Clark NOT searching for when they explored out to the Pacific Ocean?
A
The Pacific Ocean
B
Plants and Animals
C
Gold
D
The Northwest Passage
11) Which event did NOT pull settlers westward?
A
The Gold Rush
B
The Homestead Act
C
The Oregon Trail
D
The Proclamation Line
12) What was NOT a hardship that settlers had to deal with while going westward?
A
Disease and Starvation
B
Mountains
C
Native Americans
D
The British
13) In which time period did the settlers turn the western wilderness into cultivated land?
A
1700-1800
B
1600-1700
C
1900-2000
D
1800-1900
14) Which of the following is NOT a Romantic example of the wilderness?
A
The Oxbow
B
Frontier Thesis
C
Walden Pond
D
Expulsion from Eden
15) Which of the following is NOT a description of the American character according to the Frontier Thesis?
A
Dominance
B
Democracy
C
Diversity
D
Individualism
16) Who wrote the frontier thesis?
A
Rodrick Frazer Nash
B
Ralph Waldo Emerson
C
Fredrick Jackson Turner
D
Thomas Cole
17) Which of the following best describes the modern view of wilderness?
A
Preservation
B
Conservation
C
Recreation
D
Consuption
18) Which of the following best describes the counter-culture view of the wilderness?
A
Recreation
B
Scarcity Theory
C
Victim
D
Cult of the Wilderness
19) Which groups of people viewed nature as of God and encouraged wandering into nature to find yourself?
A
Cult of the Wilderness
B
Counter-Culture Movement
C
Romantics
D
Transcendentalists
20) Which group of people were more interested in a man living in the wilderness than the world seires?
A
Romantics
B
Counter Culture Movement
C
Frontiersmen
D
Cult of the Wilderness
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