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