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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eleazar Wheelock founded the Moor's Indian Charity School in what year?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1778.
(d) 1754.

2. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?
(a) Pagoda.
(b) Attawam.
(c) Tipi.
(d) Wigwam.

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

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

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) Cage chiefs.
(c) Political chiefs.
(d) Integrated chiefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Eleazar Wheelock die?

2. John Norton was born of a Cherokee father and a mother from where?

3. Samson Occom is believed to be a direct descendant of what famous Mohegan chief?

4. 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?

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

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