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CYMRY YM MINNESOTA QUIZ
- THE WELSH SETTLEMENTS IN 21 10 2001 adolygiad
diweddaraf - latest update. 0855 kimkat0855e List of the contents
of 'The History of the Welsh in Minnesota... I
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Based on "The History of the Welsh in
Minnesota, Foreston and Lime Springs, Iowa, gathered by the Old Settlers.
Edited by the Reverends Thomas E. Hughes and David Edwards, and Messrs. Hugh G.
Roberts and Thomas Hughes. 1895".
After spending many hours looking on the net for an
interactive quiz format, and subscribing to websites and downloading freeware
versions which didn't work (and so getting my e-mail address added to junk mail
lists all over the world) I've written a non-interactive quiz. (However I later
came across the excellent free Kelly's Multiple-Choice HTML Quiz Generator - http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/, but by that time I'd already used this format).
There are twelve questions; after this section is the answer section, with the
answers in red letters.
(1) In 1853 the Dakota Indians were driven from their lands and the white
settlers moved in. In this same year Blue Earth County was created. But in what
year did the first Welsh settlers arrive in this area?
a) 1850
b) 1853
c) 1850
d) 1865 (the same year as the Gwladfa Patagonia, the Welsh settlement in
Patagonia)
(2) John E. Davis was born in Nefÿn, Sir Benfro ('Pembrokeshire') in 1795.
At the age of 43/44 he went to the United States and eventually to Blue Earth
County. What was his name in Welsh?
a) Siôn Dafis
b) Sioni Hoi
c) Joni Fawr
d) Siôn Dafÿdd
(3) John I. Davies (Ioan Idris) was born in 1821, and he went to the United
States at the age of 21, and some years later to Blue Earth County. Where was
he born?
a) Dolgellau
b) Y Bala
c) Tywÿn
d) Y Bermo
(4) David J. Davies was born in Llangristiolus in Ynÿs Môn ('Anglesey') in
1814. At the age of 29/30 he went to America. There when he was 38/39 he and
his wife became Christian missionaries to a native people. What tribe was it?
a) Lakota (Sioux)
b) Ojibwe (Chippewa)
c) Omaha
d) Ho-Chañk (Winnebago)
(5) In 1867 a new township was formed in Blue Earth County. What name was
given it?
a) Wales
b) Cambria
c) Brÿn Mawr
d) Bangor
(6) At the age of 26/27 (1854) William R. Jones went to the U.S. When 29/30
years of age he translated the Consitution of Minnesota into Welsh for the
State Government. Where was he from?
a) Aberffraw
b) Aberystwÿth
c) Aber-gwaun
d) Abergynolwÿn
(7) David Dackins was born in Llanidloes. In 1862, in the American Civil
War, he was captured by the Confederates at the battle of Guntown. He escaped,
and crossed enemy territory eventually reaching the Union Army lines. What
regiment was he in?
1) Company E, Ninth Minnesota
b) Company B, Brackett's Battalion
c) 23rd Wisconsin
d) Second regiment, Minnesota Cavalry
8) How did John S. Jones (Preri) meet his death in 1862?
a) he died as a prisoner of war in Andersonville Jail in the State of
Georgia during the Civil War (1861-1865)
b) he died on the battlefield during the Civil War (1861-1865)
c) he was killed and scalped by Dakota Indians
d) he died of cold in a snowstorm
(9) What does the name Makhá To in the Dakota language mean? (the city name
Mankato is a distorted form of this)
a) blue earth
b) spotted tail
c) yellow medicine
d) black hill
(10) The Welsh farms in Blue Earth County had Welsh names. On which farm did
Evan Evans (born 1819, Nantcwnlle, Ceredigion) live?
a) Llÿn Tegid
b) Pant
c) Maes-mawr
d) Preri Bach
(11) What was the name of the literary society in Blue Earth County?
a) Y Gymdeithas Lên
b) Cymdeithas Dafÿdd ap Gwilÿm
c) Y Wÿddorfa
d) Y Cymmrodorion
(12) John T. Williams was born in 1828 yn y Rasau, Sir Frycheiniog /
Breconshire (Y Rasau is nowadays in Blaenau Gwent county). He went to work at
the age of 8 (!) in the coal mines in Cendl, Pen-y-cae and Tredegar. When he
was 19/20 he emigrated to the USA. What did he do there?
a) he opened a real estate office
b) He was the House Secretary on Indian Affairs in Washington
c) He was county treasurer in Blue Earth County
d) He was Sergeant-at-arms in the Senate of the State of Minnesota
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ANSWERS: The links are to pages in our online version of the
"History of the Welsh in Minnesota"
(1) In 1853 the
Dakota Indians were driven from their lands and the white settlers moved in. In
this same year Blue Earth Copunty was created. But in what year did the first
Welsh settlers arrive in this area?
a) 1850
b) 1853 See kimkat0882e - History of the Settlements in Blue Earth
County
c) 1850
d) 1865 (the same year as Gwladfa Patagonia, the Welsh settlement in Patagonia)
(2) John E. Davis was born in Nefÿn, Sir Benfro ('Pembrokeshire') in 1795.
At the age of 43/44 he went to the United States and eventually to Blue Earth
County. What was his name in Welsh?
a) Siôn Dafis
b) Sioni Hoi
c) Joni Fawr
d) Siôn Dafÿdd See kimkat0882e - History
of the Settlements in Blue Earth County
(3) John I. Davies (Ioan Idris) was born in 1821,
and he went to the United States at the age of 21, and some years later to Blue
Earth County. Where was he born?
a) Dolgellau
b) Y Bala See kimkat0850e -
Biographies of the Welsh settlers
c) Tywÿn
d) Y Bermo
(4) David J. Davies was born in Llangristiolus in
Ynÿs Môn ('Anglesey') in 1814. At the age of 29/30 he went to America. There
when he was 38/39 he and his wife became Christian missionaries to a native
people. What tribe was it?
a) Lakota (Sioux)
b) Ojibwe (Chippewa)
c) Omaha See kimkat0850e - Biographies
of the Welsh settlers
d) Ho-Chañk (Winnebago)
They worked among the Indians for seven years probably
in the belief that they were 'civilizing' them and 'making Chrisitians out of
them'. In fact they were destroying their identity and their pride as a people,
and so played a vital rôle in the solution of the 'Indian problem'.
(5) In 1867 a new township was formed in Blue Earth
County. What name was given it?
a) Wales
b) Cambria See kimkat0882e -
History of the Settlements in Blue Earth County
c) Brÿn Mawr
d) Bangor
(6) At the age of 26/27 (1854) William R. Jones
went to the U.S. When 29/30 years of age he translated the Consitution of
Minnesota into Welsh for the State Government. Where was he from?
a) Aberffraw See kimkat0850e
- Biographies of the Welsh settlers
b) Aberystwÿth
c) Aber-gwaun
d) Abergynolwÿn
(7) David Dackins was born in Llanidloes. In 1862,
In the American Civil War, he was captured by the Confederates at the battle of
Guntown. He escaped, and crossed enemy territory eventaully reaching the Union
Army lines. What regiment was he in?
a) Company E, Ninth Minnesota See kimkat0854e
Milwÿr y Gwrthryfel 1861-1865
b) Company B, Brackett's Battalion
c) 23rd Wisconsin
d) Second regiment, Minnesota Cavalry
(8) How did John S. Jones (Preri) meet his death in
1862?
a) he died as a prisoner of war in Andersonville Jail in the State of
Georgia during the Civil War (1861-1865)
b) he died on the battlefield during the Civil War (1861-1865)
c) he was killed and scalped by Dakota Indians
See kimkat0873e - Rhyfel y Sioux
d) he died of cold in a snowstorm
(But other settlers died in southern jails, on the battlefield, and in the
severe Minnesota winter)
(9) What does the name Makhá To in the Dakota
language mean? (the city name Mankato is a distorted form of this)
a) blue earth See kimkat0893e Lakota
vocabulary. The English name of the county - Blue Earth - is from the name of
the river - Makhá To)
b) spotted tail
c) yellow medicine
d) black hill
(10) The Welsh farms in Blue Earth County had Welsh
names. On which farm did Evan Evans (born 1819, Nantcwnlle, Ceredigion) live?
a) Llÿn Tegid
b) Pant See kimkat0850e - Biographies
of the Welsh settlers
c) Maes-mawr
d) Preri Bach (i.e., 'prairie').
These were all farm names in use in the nineteenth
century in Blue Earth County
(11) What was the name of the literary society in Blue Earth County?
a) Y Gymdeithas Lên
b) Cymdeithas Dafÿdd ap Gwilÿm
c) Y Wÿddorfa See Humphrey O. Roberts,
Llan-rug kimkat0850e - Biographies of the Welsh settlers (literally
- 'the science place, the knowledge place')
d) Y Cymmrodorion
(12) John T. Williams was born in 1828 yn y Rasau,
Sir Frycheiniog / Breconshire (Y Rasau is nowadays in Blaenau Gwent county). He
went to work at the age of 8 in the coal mines in Cendl, Pen-y-cae and
Tredegar. When he was 19/20 he emigrated to the USA. What did he do there?
a) he opened a real estate office
b) He was the House Secretary on Indian Affairs in Washington
c) He was county treasurer in Blue Earth County
d) He was Sergeant-at-arms in the Senate of the State of Minnesota
Everything! See kimkat0850e - Biographies of
the Welsh settlers
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