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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of a play on words?
A Grave Mystery
Finding the Fort
Under the Soil
Who Were You?
- 2. Multiple Choice
Chapter one begins with the discovery of __________.
bones
artifacts
James Fort
pottery
- 3. Multiple Choice
What was unusual about the skeleton found in the grave?
The arms were bent chaotically.
One leg was missing.
The skull was crushed.
The ribs were discolored.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What do we know about the bones that were found?
The bones are from a fifteen year old male.
The bones are from an elderly female.
The person died of natural causes.
The person was short in height.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Excavate means ________.
to dig
to bury
to cover
to hide
- 6. Multiple Choice
Scrutinize means _______.
to look at closely.
to hide away.
to gather together
to hold.
- 7. Multiple Choice
The Chesapeake Bay area includes all of the following except ________.
New York
Virginia
Maryland
Deleware
- 8. Multiple Choice
A forensic anthropologist ______________.
studies bones.
studies diseases.
studies animals.
studies plants.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Colonists died from all of the following causes except ________.
car accidents.
disease
starvation
conflicts with Native Americans.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What helps archeologists see where something may be buried?
soil stains
grass clumps
piles of rocks
small hills
- 11. Multiple Choice
What text feature tells what a section is about?
heading
picture
caption
diagram
- 12. Multiple Choice
What helps a reader understand by showing what something looks like?
photographs
captions
heading
map
- 13. Multiple Choice
What helps the reader by explaining what is seen in the photograph?
caption
heading
diagram
map
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not an author's craft move?
facts
rhetorical question
dialogue
antedote
- 15. Multiple Choice
Why did colonists bury two or three of their dead in the same grave?
Many people died in a short period of time.
The colonists were too lazy to dig more graves.
There wasn't room to bury them alone.
The colonists did not want the dead to be lonley.
- 16. Multiple Choice
The root forensis means
public
human
man
law
- 17. Multiple Choice
The root anthrop means
human
public
animal
plant
- 18. Multiple Choice
The suffix logy means ______.
the study of something
a written history
a person who performs an action
passing a law
- 19. Multiple Choice
Chapter 1 ends with __________.
The discovery of bones.
The discovery of James Fort
The discovery of colonial artifacts
The discovery of a ship
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