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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" in what year?
(a) 1607.
(b) 1701.
(c) 1771.
(d) 1602.

2. After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in what year?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1965.

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

4. What refers to human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.?
(a) Prehistory.
(b) Premodernism.
(c) Subhistory.
(d) Adhistory.

5. Where was Eleazar Wheelock born?
(a) Montauk, New York.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Windham, Connecticut.
(d) London, England.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John Eliot come to America?

2. What means to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition?

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

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

5. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?

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