Name ___________________________
Vocabulary Quiz
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Excerpt from: W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography
Ellen Yu
Born in 1868 in Massachusetts, DuBois was raised in a largely white area. His father left his family while
DuBois was still young. DuBois helped sustain his family by accepting jobs from white people.
In this sentence from paragraph 2, the word sustain means
A) endure.
C) support.
B) prolong.
D) undergo.
Cherokee Indian Ancestry
By: US Dept. of the Interior
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About 200 years ago the Cherokee Indians were one tribe, or "Indian Nation" that lived in the southeast part
of what is now the United States. During the 1830's and 1840's, the period covered by the Indian Removal Act,
(1) many Cherokees were moved west to a territory that is now the State of Oklahoma. A number remained in
the southeast and gathered in North Carolina where they purchased land and continued to live. (2) Others went
into the Appalachian Mountains to escape being moved west and many of their descendants may still live there
now.
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Today, individuals of Cherokee ancestry fall into the following categories:
(1) Living persons who were listed on the final rolls of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (Dawes Commission
Rolls) that were approved and descendants of these persons. These final rolls were established in 1907
(2) Individuals enrolled as members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina and descendants
who are eligible for enrollment with the Band.
(3) Persons on the list of members identified by a resolution dated April 19, 1949, and certified by
Superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes Agency and their descendants who are eligible for enrollment with
the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indian of Oklahoma.
(4) All other persons of Cherokee Indian ancestry.
Category 1
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After about a half century of self-government, a law enacted in 1906 directed that final rolls be made and that
each enrollee be given an allotment of land or paid cash in lieu of an allotment. The Cherokees formally
organized in 1975 with the adoption of a new Constitution that superseded the 1839 Cherokee Nation
Constitution. This new Constitution establishes a Cherokee Register for the inclusion of any Cherokee for
membership purposes in the Cherokee Nation. Members must be citizens as proven by reference to the Dawes
Commission Rolls. Included in this are the Delaware Cherokees of Article II of the Delaware Agreement dated
May 8, 1867, and the Shawnee Cherokees of Article III of the Shawnee Agreement dated June 9, 1869, and/or
their descendants.
P.L. 100-472, authorizes through a planning and negotiation process Indian Tribes to administer and manage
programs, activities, function, and services previously managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pursuant to P.L.
100-472 the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has entered into a Self-governance Compact and now provides those
services previously provided by the BIA. Enrollment and allotment records are maintained by the Cherokee
Nation. Any question with regard to the Cherokee Nation should be referred to:
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Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
P.O. Box 948
Tahlequah, OK 74465
(918)456-0671
Fax (918)456-6485
Category 2
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The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina is a federally recognized tribe and has its own
requirements for membership. (3) Inquiries as to these requirements, or for information shown in the records
may be addressed to the BIA's
Cherokee Agency
Cherokee, North Carolina 28719,
(704) 497-9131,
or to:
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
P.O. Box 455
Cherokee, North Carolina 28719
(207) 497-2771, ask for the Tribal Enrollment Office,
Fax (704)497-2952.
Category 3
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By the Act of August 10, 1946, 60 Stat. 976, Congress recognized the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indians in Oklahoma (UKB) for the purposes of organizing under the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. In 1950, the
UKB organized under a Constitution and Bylaws approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Members of the UKB
consist of all persons whose names appear on the list of members identified by a resolution dated April 19, 1949,
and certified by the Superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes Agency on November 26, 1949, with the
governing body of the UKB having the power to prescribe rules and regulations governing future membership.
The supreme governing body (UKB Council) consists of 9 members, elected to represent the nine districts of the
old Cherokee Nation and four officers, elected at large. Information may be obtained by writing:
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians
P.O. Box 746
Tahlequah, Oklahoma 74465-9432
(918) 456-5491 Fax (918) 456-9601.
Category 4
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Information about Indian ancestry of individuals in this category of Cherokees is more difficult to locate. (3)
This is primarily because the federal government has never maintained a list of all the persons of Cherokee
Indian descent indicating their tribal affiliation degree of Indian blood or other data. (4) In order to establish
Cherokee ancestry you should use the same methods prescribed in "Indian Ancestry’ and "Genealogical
Research" material. (Reference directories" INDIAN ANCESTRY" and" GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH")
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on 10/09/03
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This is primarily because the federal government has never maintained a list of all the persons of Cherokee
Indian descent, indicating their tribal affiliation, degree of Indian blood or other data.
Which of these is the BEST meaning for descent as it is used in this sentence?
A) a downward incline or passage
B) hereditary derivation; lineage
C) a lowering decline as in level
D) a sudden visit or attack; an onslaught
3) What is the meaning of the word descendants as it is used in the first paragraph of the document?
A) people who moved West
B) members of the Cherokee tribe
C) those who declined to be moved
D) family members whose ancestors were Cherokee
4)
land:
1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface,
especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.
2. Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual
or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.
3. Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
4. to bring into or cause to arrive in a particular place, position, or condition.
Which is the BEST meaning for land as it is used in this sentence?
After about a half century of self-government, a law enacted in 1906 directed that final rolls be made and that
each enrollee be given an allotment of land or paid cash in lieu of an allotment.
A) Definition 1
B) Definition 2
C) Definition 3
D) Definition 4
5)
The Cherokees formally organized in 1975 with the adoption of a new Constitution that superseded the 1839
Cherokee Nation Constitution.
What is the meaning of the word superseded as used in the previous sentence?
A) omitted
B) organized
C) replaced
D) updated
6) "The Cherokees formally organized in 1975 with the adoption of a new Constitution that superseded the
1839 Cherokee Nation Constitution."
Which word means the same as superseded as it is used in this sentence from the document?
A) added
B) altered
C) preceded
D) replaced
Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a
different story.
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If you know Starkfield, Massachusetts, you know the post-office. If you know the post-office you must’ve seen
Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins of his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement
to the white colonnade: and you must have asked who he was.
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It was there that, several years ago, I saw him for the first time; and the sight pulled me up sharp. Even then
he was the most striking figure in Starkfield, though he was but the ruin of a man. It was not so much his great
height that marked him, for the ‘natives’ were easily singled out by their lank longitude from the stockier
foreign breed: it was the careless powerful look he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk
of a chain. There was something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was so stiffened and grizzled that
I took him for an old man and was surprised to hear that he was not more than fifty-two. I had this from
Harmon Gow, who had driven the stage from Bettsbridge to Starkfield in pre-trolley days and knew the
chronicle of all the families on his line.
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‘He’s looked that way ever since he had his smash-up; and that’s twenty-four years ago come next February.’
Harmon threw out between reminiscent pauses.
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The ‘smash-up’ it was—I gathered from the same informant—which, besides drawing the red gash across
Ethan Frome’s forehead, had so shortened and warped his right side that it cost him a visible effort to take the
few steps from his buggy to the post-office window. He used to drive in from his farm every day at about noon,
and as that was my own hour for fetching my mail I often passed him in the porch or stood beside him while we
waited on the motions of the distributing hand behind the grating. I noticed that, though he came so punctually,
he seldom received anything but a copy of the Bettsbridge Eagle, which he put without a glance into his sagging
pocket. At intervals, however, the post-master would hand him an envelope addressed to Mrs. Zenobia—or Mrs.
Zeena—Frome, and usually bearing conspicuously in the upper left-hand corner the address of some
manufacturer of patent medicine and the name of his specific. These documents my neighbour would also
pocket without a glance, as if too much used to them to wonder at their number and variety, and would then
turn away with a silent nod to the post-master.
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Everyone in Starkfield knew him and gave him a greeting tempered to his own grave mien; but his taciturnity
was respected and it was only on rare occasions that one of the older men of the place detained him for a word.
When this happened he would listen quietly, his blue eyes on the speaker’s face, and answer in so low a tone
that his words never reached me; then he would climb stiffly into his buggy, gather up the reins in his left hand
and drive slowly away in the direction of his farm.
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‘It was a pretty bad smash-up?’ I questioned Harmon, looking after Frome’s retreating figure, and thinking how
gallantly his lean brown head, with its shock of light hair, must have sat on his strong shoulders before they
were bent out of shape.
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‘Wust kind,’ my informant assented. ‘More’n enough to kill most men. But the Fromes are tough. Ethan’ll likely
touch a hundred.’
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‘Good God!’ I exclaimed. At the moment Ethan Frome, after climbing to his seat, had leaned over to assure
himself of the security of a wooden box—also with a druggist’s label on it—which he had placed in the back of
the buggy, and I saw his face as it probably looked when he thought himself alone. ‘That man touch a hundred?
He looks as if he was dead and in hell now!’
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7) What does punctually mean, as used in the third sentence of section 5?
A) poorly dressed
B) very hungry
C) promptly
D) carefully
8)
"There was something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was so stiffened and grizzled that I took
him for an old man and was surprised to hear that he was not more than fifty-two."
What does bleak mean as used in this sentence?
A) cold and raw
B) new and youthful
C) calm and assuring
D) private and reflective
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There was something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was so stiffened and grizzled that I took
him for an old man and was surprised to hear that he was not more than fifty-two.
Using knowledge of root words and affixes, select the answer choice that gives the BEST meaning of the word
unapproachable as it is used in this sentence from the passage.
A) not friendly
B) not looking old
C) easy to talk with
D) looking older than his years
10)
Read the following passage:
"He used to drive in from his farm every day at about noon, and as that was my own hour for fetching my
mail I often passed him in the porch or stood beside him while we waited on the motions of the distributing
hand behind the grating."
The phrase "waited on the motions of the distributing hand behind the grating" refers to what or whom?
A) a horse rider pulling on the horse's reins
B) a bartender handing out drinks in a saloon
C) a postman putting mail in post office boxes
D) a sheriff handing citations to law-breakers