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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Samsom Occom began to study theology at the "Lattin School" of Eleazar Wheelock in what year?
(a) 1615.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1743.

2. According to the author in Chapter 2, in addition to intermarriage, some tribes sought to bolster their numbers by what means?
(a) Capturing Europeans.
(b) Converting to Christianity.
(c) Selling children.
(d) Converting other tribes.

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

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?
(a) Scalps.
(b) Heads.
(c) Allies.
(d) Weapons.

5. The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to what year?
(a) 1601.
(b) 1549.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1459.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, a "Great Spirit" punishes his daughter for what by casting her down a great hole in the heavens?

2. What refers to money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete or public official?

3. The Walking Purchase was a purported agreement from what year?

4. The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and who?

5. The Indian Nonintercourse Act was passed by the United States Congress beginning in what year?

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