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Question #1
Loewen says he asked hundreds of college students, "When was the country we now know as the United States first settled?" The consensus answer was apparently:
A.   30,000 BC
B.   1620
C.   1526
D.   1492
Question #2
Why, according to Loewen, do high school American history textbooks typically downplay Spanish settlement in what is now the United States?
A.   English and Dutch settlements predate Spanish settlements
B.   Most textbook authors are WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants)
C.   Spanish setters were largely immoral, while the English were by all accounts righteous
D.   Spanish settlers had comparatively very little impact on the Americas
Question #3
Why, according to most texts in Loewen's survey, did the Pilgrims land in Massachusetts when their original destination was Virginia?
A.   Storms and/or navigation errors
B.   The Pilgrims had packed lots of winter clothes that would've gone to waste in balmy Virginia
C.   Texts generally present multiple theories and encourage students to think critically about which is most plausible
D.   As the majority group aboard the Mayflower, the Pilgrims altered course
Question #4
Texts usually focus on the Pilgrims instead of the Virginia colony because:
A.   the English in Virginia enslaved and forced Native Americans to teach colonists how to farm
B.   Virginian colonists resorted to cannibalism only
C.   Virginian colonists, out of desperation, rented themselves out to Native Americans as servants
D.   all of these
Question #5
Which of these facets of Squanto's story are texts most likely to reveal?
A.   he escaped slavery and fled to England
B.   upon his return to New England, he realized that his whole tribe had been wiped out by disease
C.   he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Málaga, Spain
D.   he learned English from fishermen
Question #6
Loewen suggests that "Thanksgiving celebrates our _____________ "
A.   ethnocentrism
B.   sinocentrism

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