Cliff Dwellers

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Quiz on Cliff Dwellers, created by Saddleback ARC on 16/11/2017.
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Question 1

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What is Mesa Verde National Park famous for?
Answer
  • beautiful waterfalls
  • Native American cliff dwellings
  • an endangered species of bird
  • a collection of Native American baskets

Question 2

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Archeologists believe that the Ancestral Pueblo people began building their homes in cliffs to defend themselves in times of war. What evidence from the text supports this conclusion?
Answer
  • Many of the cliff dwellings are accessible only by rope ladder.
  • Most of the towers were built around kivas.
  • Cliff Palace could have provided shelter for over 100 people.
  • Ancestral Pueblo people built dams, walls and other basic irrigation systems.

Question 3

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The Ancestral Pueblo people moved from a strictly hunter-gatherer culture to one increasingly dependent on agriculture, growing beans and domesticating animals like turkeys. What effect did this have on their lifestyle?
Answer
  • They started living in caves and shallow pits.
  • They stopped building stone communities.
  • Their cultural life began to focus less on ceremonial gatherings.
  • Their cultural life began to focus on ceremonial gatherings.

Question 4

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Read the following sentences: “Who built these fabulous dwellings? Why did they choose to dig them into the face of the rock itself? When did they live, and how did their civilization fade?” Why does the author pose these questions?
Answer
  • to annoy the reader with vague hypotheticals
  • to let students know what they will be quizzed on
  • to ask the reader a direct question
  • to set up points that the passage will address

Question 5

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What is this passage mostly about?
Answer
  • cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park and the people who built them
  • tribal warfare between Ancestral Pueblo peoples
  • the “Late Basketmaker II” period
  • the importance of the kiva in Ancestral Pueblo culture
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