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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Smallpox is believed to have emerged in human populations about what time?
(a) 15,000 B.C.
(b) 5,000 B.C.
(c) 10,000 B.C.
(d) 1,000 B.C.

2. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago is given the gift of corn from whom?
(a) The Great Turtle.
(b) Tawiskaron.
(c) His mother.
(d) The "Great Spirit."

3. To help control Indian populations, Europeans would install what, who would support European interests, which included sending Indian warriors into European wars?
(a) Client chiefs.
(b) Integrated chiefs.
(c) Cage chiefs.
(d) Political chiefs.

4. When did John Heckewelder die?
(a) 1604.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1869.

5. What word refers to the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective and with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture?
(a) Francocism.
(b) Eurocentricism.
(c) Anglicism.
(d) Europeanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what tribe was Josiah Jeremy?

2. In Chapter 1, John Heckewelder relates a "verbatim" account from the Delaware and Mahican Indians of the Dutch landing in an area that is now known as what?

3. What refers to money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete or public official?

4. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, who kills the daughter of the "Great Spirit" in childbirth by trying to exit the womb from "the side"?

5. What means to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition?

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