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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, red feathers mean what symbolically?
(a) Surrender.
(b) Love.
(c) Peace.
(d) War.

2. In Chapter 4, a Cayuga chief described what tribe as warlike and treacherous, when in reality they were peace-loving?
(a) The Delaware Indians.
(b) The Apaches.
(c) The Catawbas.
(d) The Cherokee.

3. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago is given the gift of corn from whom?
(a) Tawiskaron.
(b) The "Great Spirit."
(c) The Great Turtle.
(d) His mother.

4. Smallpox killed what estimated number of Europeans per year during the closing years of the 18th century?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 600,000.

5. What refers to the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected?
(a) Bribery.
(b) Forgery.
(c) Allimony.
(d) Larceny.

Short Answer Questions

1. By way of the Walking Purchase, the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of how many acres in Pennsylvania?

2. Smallpox was responsible for how many estimated deaths during the 20th century?

3. John Eliot wrote a series of fictional "dialogues" such as one which is reprinted in Chapter 2 describing a converted Indian named what who returns to his native village?

4. The Treaty of Lancaster was a treaty concluded between the Six Nations and the colonies of Virginia and what?

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

(see the answer key)

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