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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Idiom.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Syllogism.

2. What is the most severe and common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever?
(a) Variola incubus.
(b) Variola minor.
(c) Variola major.
(d) Variola sine eruptione.

3. The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is probably the pustular rash on the mummified body of whom?
(a) King Edward I.
(b) Pharaoh Ramses V.
(c) Pharaoh Sekhemib-Perenmaat.
(d) Pharaoh Thutmose III.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was John Heckewelder born?

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

3. The text by Josiah Jeremy in Chapter 1 is dated when?

4. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago is given the gift of corn from whom?

5. What is defined as a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form?

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