A. Identification Quizzes: The most basic quiz will be an indentification of a word found at the bottom of each lecture outline (distributed in class or available on the web page).  For each identification you will be expected to (a) define the term; (b) place it appropriately in time and space; and (c) explain its historical significance.  All such quizzes will be ANNOUNCED.  Some will be in section; some in lecture.  At the time of the quiz, you will generally be given a list of three-five words (drawn from the longer list of all identification words from the announced lectures) and asked to identify fully one of them of your choice. The following is an example of the term "indentured servitude";

Indentured Servitude:  a seventeenth-century contractual relationship that allowed a poor English person to gain "free" passage to the English colonies in America in return for a promise to work for a stipulated number of years (usually four to seven).  The contract could be and usually was sold to a farmer or planter in America (who could, in turn, sell it again, so the "servant" became a commodity).  Servants were under the virtual complete control of their masters; they could be whipped if they did not work hard and have years added to their service if they ran away, or, in the case of women, became pregnant.  Indentured servitude (a) was the primary means by which young people populated the southern colonies -- Maryland, Virginia, Barbados;  and (b) led, as the supply of cheap labor ran down, to the institution of African slavery.

Note: the above answer suggests two historical significances of indentured servitude, but for a complete answer, only one would be necessary.

B. Multiple Choice Quizzes: You will also have multiple choice tests.  These will be UNANNOUNCED and given at the end of lecture.  Students who sign in to lecture, leave early (without notifying their instructor that they must do so), and miss the quiz, will not only receive a zero on the quiz but also be assigned THREE absenses.  Two examples:

1. ______  Place in the correct chronological order: the presidential administrations of (a) Andrew Jackson (b) Martin Van Buren (c) John Quincy Adams.
    A. abc
    B. acb
    C. bac
    D. bca
    E. cab
    F. cba


2. ______ Which of the following best describes Kennedy's response to the discovery that the Soviet Union was about to supply Cuba in 1962 with short-range nuclear missiles:
    A. he ordered an invasion of Cuba.
    B. he declared war on the Soviet Union.
    C. he ordered a naval blockade of Cuba.
    D. he had the missile sites bombed.
    E. he attempted to have Cuban leader Castro assassinated.


C. Short-Answer Quizzes: for each chapter in the textbook, you will have a review question.  In a quiz, you will be given two of these questions and asked to write on one of them.  These quizzes will be ANNOUNCED.

Example: (based in Chapter 1 of Volume I of the textbook): Compare the sexual division of labor among Africans, Native Americans and Europeans in the 17th century.