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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 were attacked by the King of what with a bow and arrow?
(a) Lions.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Birds.
(d) Bears.

2. What means to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition?
(a) Coerce.
(b) Ransom.
(c) Bribe.
(d) Treason.

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

4. The Mohawk Major John Norton was known as what by his people?
(a) Teyoninhokovrawen.
(b) Thayendanega.
(c) Haudenosaunee.
(d) Tyendinaga.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John Heckewelder born?

2. What is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance?

3. The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to what year?

4. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Tawiskaron proves to be a great what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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