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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was an armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho and the United States in the Wyoming Territory and the Montana Territory from 1866 to 1868?
(a) The French and Indian War.
(b) King Philip's War.
(c) Red Cloud's War.
(d) The Battle of Red Wing.

3. George Washington became known by what nickname among the Native Americans for ordering the destruction of around forty Iroquois towns during the Revolutionary War?
(a) "Black Night."
(b) "Great Bear."
(c) "Town Destroyer."
(d) "Monstrous Destroyer."

4. When did the American Revolutionary War end?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1779.
(c) 1783.
(d) 1789.

5. The text by Josiah Jeremy in Chapter 1 relates a story about the first sighting of what?
(a) A French boat.
(b) An Italian boat.
(c) An English boat.
(d) A Dutch boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year were 96 Delaware Indians murdered by American militia because the militia believed the Indians were plotting against them?

2. Some estimates indicate case fatality rates of what percentage in Native American populations during smallpox epidemics?

3. Samson Occom is believed to be a direct descendant of what famous Mohegan chief?

4. 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?

5. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago is given the gift of corn from whom?

(see the answer key)

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