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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 Kasihtas killed what great animal by sacrificing an orphan baby to it?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A bear.
(c) A lion.
(d) A wolf.

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?
(a) Cape May, Massachusetts.
(b) Queens, New York.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Manhattan, New York.

3. What is defined as a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Myth.
(c) Custom.
(d) Creationism.

4. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas were attacked by the King of what with a bow and arrow?
(a) Bears.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Birds.
(d) Lions.

5. Where was John Heckewelder born?
(a) London, England.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Bedford, England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some estimates indicate case fatality rates of what percentage in Native American populations during smallpox epidemics?

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

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

4. John Norton was adopted by the Mohawks, with who as his uncle?

5. The text by Josiah Jeremy in Chapter 1 relates a story about the first sighting of what?

(see the answer key)

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