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Minnesota History

For each question please circle the answer you

think is best.

Question 1What ways did early American Indians

use to record their History?

A. Pencil and paper.

B. Pictures on animal hides and rocks.

C. Sound and video recordings.

Question 2What is this a picture of?

C. Petroglyphs or rock carvings.

B. Graffiti or vandalism.

A. Rock for making tools.

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Question 3What is a Winter Count?

A. A picture drawn on an animal hide to remember the past.

B. A count of how many cold days there are in a year.

C. A picture drawn in the snow to remember the winter.

Question 4What groups exchanged items and

cultures during the fur trade?

A. Dakota, Ojibwe, and Europeans.

B. Navajo, Apache, and Europeans.

C. Dakota, Ojibwe, and Mexicans.

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Question 5What are these women doing?

C. Collecting wild rice.

B. Fishing.

A. Looking for birds.

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Question 6What job did a clerk do during

the fur trade?

A. Translated Dakota into English.

B. Moved trade items into and furs out of Minnesota by canoe.

C. Traded items and kept records at the fur trade post.

Question 7What items were traded at the

fur trading post?

B. Tools, cloth, and beaver fur.

A. Candy, stamps, and shells.

C. Fur, wood, and money.

Question 8Which are things that are found near the mills in Minneapolis?

C. St. Anthony falls, the Stone Arch bridge, and the Mississippi river.

B. Minnehaha falls, Cherry Spoon bridge, and Minnesota river.

A. St. Anthony falls, Fort Snelling, and the Mississippi river.

Question 9 What was this used building for?

A. People made trains here.

B. People made flour here.

C. Waterfalls a.C. People lived here.

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What are three places grain visits before it becomes flour?

A. A grain elevator, a train car, and a mill.

B. A bakery, a farmers market, and an airplane.

C. Both A and B.

Question 11Why did they build mills at St.

Antony falls?

A. Waterfalls are very powerful and the power can be used by people at the mill.

B. Waterfalls are very beautiful and the people at the mill liked to watch them.

C. Waterfalls are very powerful and can push the boats in front of the mill.

Question 12 Why do refugees leave their own

country?

A. They are looking for a colder place to live.

B. Their own country is no longer safe.

C. Their own country does not have enough land.

Question 13What story does this quilt tell you?

A. People taking a walk and a swim.

B. People who are leaving their country to find food.

C. People who are leaving their country because of war.

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Question 14 What are some challenges for refugees living in Minnesota?

A. The language and the weather.

B. Finding jobs and missing their homeland.

C. Both A and B.

Question 15What two major groups of refugees

are living in Minnesota today?

C. Swedish and Hmong

B. Russian and German

A. Hmong and Somali