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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what tribe was Josiah Jeremy?
(a) The Cherokee people.
(b) The Apache people.
(c) The Apalachicolas.
(d) The Micmac Indians.

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

3. What dealt a terrible blow to many Indian tribes, leading to further dependence on European goods and foolish land deals?
(a) Opium addiction.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Caffeine addiction.
(d) Marijuana addiction.

4. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?
(a) 68,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 46,000.

5. To help control Indian populations, Europeans would install what, who would support European interests, which included sending Indian warriors into European wars?
(a) Client chiefs.
(b) Political chiefs.
(c) Integrated chiefs.
(d) Cage chiefs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was John Norton born?

3. What word refers to the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective and with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture?

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

5. In Chapter 1, an Iroquois creation story provided by John Norton was dated from what year?

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