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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 46,000.
(c) 35,000.
(d) 68,000.

2. In what year did a Delaware chief named John Killbuck make a speech correctly doubting that the white man will be satisfied with the Ohio River boundary?
(a) 1771.
(b) 1768.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1802.

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

4. John Norton was born of a Cherokee father and a mother from where?
(a) France.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Ireland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 2, in addition to intermarriage, some tribes sought to bolster their numbers by what means?

2. What is a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries?

3. What is the most severe and common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever?

4. The French and Indian War ended in what year?

5. Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" in what year?

(see the answer key)

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