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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Diplomat.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Mercenary.
(d) Missionary.

2. The first text in Chapter 4 is from what year, when a governor of New France traveled to Iroquois country to try to bluff his way to making the Iroquois stop trading with the English?
(a) 1756.
(b) 1754.
(c) 1658.
(d) 1684.

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. What means to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition?
(a) Treason.
(b) Ransom.
(c) Coerce.
(d) Bribe.

5. In 1778, a chief named what, ceding no land, allowed Americans to cross Delaware country?
(a) White Dove.
(b) Black Bear.
(c) Black Lion.
(d) White Eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Delaware Indians strenuously denied the accuracy of the treaty called the Treaty of Fort Pitt in a letter to what American Indian agent in Chapter 5?

2. 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?

3. What did the French call children of European and Indian parentage?

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. What term refers to the adoption of a new religious identity?

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