Test Bank for Experience History Interpreting America’s Past (AP Edition) Davidson

Student name:__________
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that
best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) About 15,000 years ago BP, which land bridge was
used by migrants to cross between Siberia and Alaska?

C) Siberian Strait
A) Bering Strait D) Straits of Asia
B) Alaskan Strait



2) Most modern archeologists would agree that the which of the following
earliest inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere came from areas of the world?

C) Asia
A) Europe D) the Arctic
B) South America



3) Which group was the first to build cities in the New
World?

C) Toltecs
A) Aztecs D) Mayas
B) Olmecs



4) Both the Mogollon and the Hohokam peoples of the
American Southwest tended to build their dwellings near
which of the following?

C) streams
A) other villages D) sacred sites
B) mountains



5) Which of the following groups lived in what is now
known as the Four Corners region of the United States?

B) Hohokam
A) Woodlands C) Ancestral

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, Pueblo D) Aztecs




6) The Mogollon, the Hohokam, and the Ancestral
Pueblo were North American cultures from which region of
the United States?

C) Great Plains
A) Eastern Woodlands D) Great Basin
B) Southwest



7) The Mississippian people were a culture from the

C) Great Plains.
A) Eastern Woodlands. D) Great Basin.
B) Pacific Northwest.



8) The Numic-speaking peoples were from which
geographic region?

C) Great Plains
A) Eastern Woodlands D) Great Basin
B) Pacific Northwest



9) In which of the following areas did people live in a
society with deep divisions among nobles, commoners, and
slaves?

D) Eastern
A) Subarctic Woodlands
B) Pacific Northwest
C) Great Basin




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