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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, who kills the daughter of the "Great Spirit" in childbirth by trying to exit the womb from "the side"?
(a) Teyoninhokovrawen.
(b) Kasihtas.
(c) Teharonghyawago.
(d) Tawiskaron.

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

4. 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) Queens, New York.
(d) Cape May, Massachusetts.

5. What refers to the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?
(a) Irony.
(b) Literacy.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Symbolism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Smallpox is believed to have emerged in human populations about what time?

2. When was John Heckewelder born?

3. When was John Eliot born?

4. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas proved their seniority among the other tribes by having a great war, and accumulating more what than other tribes?

5. The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is probably the pustular rash on the mummified body of whom?

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