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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

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) Red Cloud's War.
(b) The French and Indian War.
(c) The Battle of Red Wing.
(d) King Philip's War.

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

3. 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?
(a) Killing her brother.
(b) Disobeying his will.
(c) Falling in love with a mortal.
(d) Becoming pregnant out of wedlock.

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?
(a) The Great Mountain.
(b) The Mountain of Heaven.
(c) The Great Bear.
(d) The King of Mountains.

5. What refers to a writing or document executed under seal and delivered to effect a conveyance, especially of real estate?
(a) Warranty.
(b) Forgery.
(c) Deed.
(d) Contraband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Smallpox killed what estimated number of Europeans per year during the closing years of the 18th century?

2. Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" in what year?

3. In the "Act of Submission" printed in Chapter 3, the Native American tribe formally submitted themselves as subjects of what?

4. Where was John Heckewelder born?

5. What refers to human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.?

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