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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas proved their seniority among the other tribes by having a great war, and accumulating more what than other tribes?
(a) Heads.
(b) Allies.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Scalps.

3. 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.

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"?
(a) Tawiskaron.
(b) Teyoninhokovrawen.
(c) Kasihtas.
(d) Teharonghyawago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was John Heckewelder born?

2. What is the most severe and common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever?

3. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas followed a tribe called what for many years over different kinds of terrain?

4. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, white feathers mean what symbolically?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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