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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Delaware Indians strenuously denied the accuracy of the treaty called the Treaty of Fort Pitt in a letter to what American Indian agent in Chapter 5?
(a) William Johnson.
(b) Alexander McGillivray.
(c) Joseph Brant.
(d) George Morgan.

2. When was Dragging Canoe born?
(a) 1717.
(b) 1708.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1738.

3. When was John Heckewelder born?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1604.
(d) 1823.

4. Thomas Jefferson was governor of what state when he urged extermination of Shawnees in Ohio?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Delaware.
(d) Pennsylvania.

5. In an address to whom in Chapter 5 does Joseph Brant reiterate support for Great Britain?
(a) William Johnson.
(b) Lord Germain.
(c) Eleazar Wheelock.
(d) Jeffery Amherst.

Short Answer Questions

1. Joseph Mittark was accused of illegitimately selling the lands of his people to whom?

2. By way of the Walking Purchase, the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of how many acres in Pennsylvania?

3. In Chapter 1, an Iroquois creation story provided by John Norton was dated from what year?

4. What refers to a writing or document executed under seal and delivered to effect a conveyance, especially of real estate?

5. 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"?

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