This document contains 15 multiple choice questions about Minnesota history. The questions cover topics such as American Indian culture, early European settlement, and challenges faced by immigrants. Key details assessed include Minnesota's state symbols, indigenous peoples like the Dakota and Ojibwe, how American Indians lived and what they ate, Fort Snelling, and difficulties adjusting to a new country.

1. Question 1
Minnesota History What is an Artifact?
A. A fact about a piece of art.
For each question please
B. An object that was made in the past.
circle the answer you
think is best.
C. Something found outside.
Question 3 Question 2
Which of these are Minnesota state What is this place?
symbols?
A. A museum where
A. The loon and ladyslipper. people see objects
from the past.
B. A museum where
B. The walleye and the blueberry muffin.
people make objects
from the past.
C. Both A and B.
C. An museum
where people make
laws.
Question 4
Image 1
What are the two major groups of
American Indians in Minnesota?
A. Dakota and Ojibwe.
B. Apache and Ojibwe.
C. Cherokee and Cree.
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2. Question 5 Question 6
How did the American Indian children What are these women doing?
in Minnesota learn?
A. Looking at photographs and listening A. Cooking
to stories. Soup.
B. Doing the
B. Reading books and watching their
Laundry.
parents.
C. Making Maple
C. Listening to stories and helping Sugar.
others with their work.
Question 7
Image 2 What homes did American Indians in
Minnesota live in?
A. Wigwams and adobes.
B. Wigwams and teepees.
C. Teepees and plank houses.
Question 8
Question 9
What did American Indians in
What is this object?
Minnesota eat?
A. A bandolier bag used
A. Sugar, nuts, and buffalo meat.
by the Ojibwe people.
B. A parfleche bag used by
B. Fish, wild rice, and berries.
the Dakota people.
C. A mukuk used by the
C. Both A and B.
Apache people.
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3. Question 10
Image 3
Which of these did not happen when
Minnesota became a territory?
A. The American Indians were given more land.
B. More people came to Minnesota.
C. More businesses were started.
Question 11 Image 4
What is this place?
A.Fort Snelling.
B. Fort McKinley.
C. Fort Sumter.
Question 12 Question 13
Who was living at this fort and What is one reason an immigrant
why? would leave their own country?
A. They are looking for a colder place to
A. Women were living there because
live.
they wanted to sell furs.
B. Soldiers were living there because
of the fur trade. B. They are looking for a place with fewer
jobs.
C. Children were living there because
they wanted to become soldiers. C. Their own country does not have
enough land.
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4. Question 14 Question 15
What are some challenges for What are these people doing?
immigrants that came to Minnesota?
A. Leaving their
A. The language and the weather. country to move
to the United
States.
B. Finding jobs and missing their B. Taking a nap
homeland. because they are
tired.
C. Taking a boat to
C. Both A and B. vacation in
Europe.
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