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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, the West opened up, and a tribe named the Kasihtas settled near a mountain so great and thunderous they called it what?
(a) The King of Mountains.
(b) The Great Mountain.
(c) The Mountain of Heaven.
(d) The Great Bear.

2. In Chapter 1, an Iroquois creation story provided by John Norton was dated from what year?
(a) 1816.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1826.

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

4. 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?
(a) Francocism.
(b) Eurocentricism.
(c) Europeanism.
(d) Anglicism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Where was John Eliot born?

5. Smallpox was responsible for how many estimated deaths during the 20th century?

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