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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, red feathers mean what symbolically?
(a) Surrender.
(b) Love.
(c) War.
(d) Peace.

2. John Norton was born of a Cherokee father and a mother from where?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Ireland.
(c) France.
(d) Scotland.

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

4. When was John Heckewelder born?
(a) 1604.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1743.

5. When did Eleazar Wheelock die?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1615.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1802.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Samsom Occom settle, set up a school, marry, attend to the sick and to burials, and perform other priestly duties?

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

3. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas killed what great animal by sacrificing an orphan baby to it?

4. To help control Indian populations, Europeans would install what, who would support European interests, which included sending Indian warriors into European wars?

5. After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in what year?

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