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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was an armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho and the United States in the Wyoming Territory and the Montana Territory from 1866 to 1868?
(a) King Philip's War.
(b) The Battle of Red Wing.
(c) The French and Indian War.
(d) Red Cloud's War.

2. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, an image of the earth is described as sitting on the back of what?
(a) A Great Turtle.
(b) A Great Bear.
(c) A Great Fox.
(d) A Great Buffalo.

3. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Tawiskaron proves to be a great what?
(a) Painter.
(b) Hunter.
(c) Fisherman.
(d) Singer.

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

5. What refers to human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.?
(a) Subhistory.
(b) Premodernism.
(c) Adhistory.
(d) Prehistory.

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

7. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?
(a) Tipi.
(b) Wigwam.
(c) Pagoda.
(d) Attawam.

8. Samsom Occom had problems with what dying on him, leading him into debt?
(a) Horses.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Corn crops.

9. When was Mary Jemison captured by the Seneca tribe and taken to western New York?
(a) 1769.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1758.
(d) 1790.

10. When was John Norton born?
(a) Early 1800s.
(b) Early 1750s.
(c) Early 1760s.
(d) Late 1770s.

11. John Norton was born of a Cherokee father and a mother from where?
(a) France.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Scotland.

12. When was Samson Occom born?
(a) 1723.
(b) 1705.
(c) 1700.
(d) 1792.

13. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?
(a) 46,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 68,000.
(d) 35,000.

14. John Norton played a prominent role in what conflict, leading Iroquois warriors from Grand River into battle against American invaders?
(a) Red Cloud's War.
(b) The French and Indian War.
(c) The War of 1812.
(d) King Philip's War.

15. When was John Eliot born?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1604.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1610.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries?

2. The first known Europeans to reach the Americas were who during the 11th century?

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 Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the West opened up, and a tribe named the Kasihtas settled near a mountain so great and thunderous they called it what?

5. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, a "Great Spirit" punishes his daughter for what by casting her down a great hole in the heavens?

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