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Social Studies – Chapter 1 Unit Test

Matching /5
DIRECTIONS: Match the terms and definitions!
• For the following section write the letter from the right-hand column onto the space
beside the word on the left-hand side

1. ____ Alliance A. A debate in which people discuss an issue

until they can all agree on one outcome

2. ____ Clan Mother B. An alliance including the five

Haudenosaunee nations living south of the
3. ____ Iroquois Confederacy Great Lakes

C. A small village of extended families who

4. ____ Decision Making by Consensus lived together, cooperated and shared
resources
5. ____ Clans
D. The head of a Haudenosaunee longhouse

E. A union in which groups agree to trade and

help each other resolve disputes

Matching /3
DIRECTIONS: Match the short phrase about where Aboriginal peoples lived to the correct
Aboriginal Society.

Where the Aboriginal societies lived: Aboriginal Societies:

1. ____ Wooded country of northern A. Mi’kmaq

and central Ontario and southern
Manitoba B. Haudenosaunee

2. ____ Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,

P.E.I, and the Gaspe Peninsula of C. Anishinabe
Quebec

3. ____ North or south of the St.

Lawrence River
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Multiple Choice /10

DIRECTIONS: For the following questions circle the best answer!

1. Women played an important role in which 6. Which Aboriginal Society considered the
group(s)? “seventh generation” when making decisions?

a) The Anishinabe and the Mi’kmaq a) The Mi’kmaq

b) The Anishinabe, Haudenosaunee and the b) The Haudenosaunee
Mi’kmaq c) The Anishinabe
c) Only the Mi’kmaq

2. In Anishinabe societies men were chosen to be 7. The picture of Pinocchio represents which
leaders for three reasons. Identify the response Anishinabe value?
below that IS NOT one of these three reasons.
a) Bravery
a) He was good looking b) Respect
b) He had good skill in hunting c) Honesty
c) He displayed courage and good character d) None of the above

3. While not all First Nation societies have the 8. What is the correct order in which
same beliefs and values, economies and Haudenosaunee people ate their food?
resources, women’s roles, or government (left to right = first to last)
structures, they generally do have shared values
and ways of life which include: a) Children – Elders – Women – Men
b) Elders – Children – Women – Men
a) People are not separate from nature and
they must live in harmony with it
b) A spiritual world exists, and Elders are
highly respected
c) Both A and B

4. The Anishinabe people have 7 specific values 9. Which Aboriginal Society valued sharing labour
that make up their _______________. and the benefits of that labour?

a) World view a) The Mi’kmaq

b) Point of view b) The Haudenosaunee
c) Perspective c) The Anishinabe

5. The Haudenosaunee were able to become the 10. The “seventh generation” is…
“original farmers” because
a) A system used to consider decisions
a) The soil was fertile, and the climate was carefully
extreme b) A system that considers how decisions will
b) The soil was fertile, and the climate was affect their community seven generations
mild into the future
c) None of the above c) All of the above
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Matching /3
DIRECTIONS: Match the short phrase about the Aboriginal governing systems to the correct
Aboriginal Society.

Governing Systems: Aboriginal Society:

1. _____ A Central Council that met at least once
per year A. Mi’kmaq

2. _____ A Grand Council with a leader and 7

district chiefs B. Haudenosaunee

3. _____ A Clan System where each clan had a C. Anishinabe

leader and was named after an animal

True/False /5
DIRECTIONS: Write the letter “T” to indicate “true” and “F” to indicate “false.” Write the
letter on the blank beside the number

1. _____ During the wild rice harvest only women and children harvest.

2. _____ The Anishinabe believed that the Creator, Kisulk, put them on Earth.

3. _____ The Plains people utilized every part of the buffalo

4. _____ It was not uncommon for the Mi’kmaq people to live to be 100 years old

5. _____ Decision making by consensus does not require compromise

Flip to the next page for the written

response section
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Written Response /4
DIRECTIONS: Answer the questions below!

1. What are the three sisters?

_________________, ____________________, and __________________.

2. What is an example of decision making by consensus?

____________________________________________________________________

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