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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was John Heckewelder born?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1604.
(d) 1823.

3. The Moor's Indian Charity School moved to Hanover, New Hampshire to become what institution?
(a) Harvard College.
(b) Dartmouth College.
(c) Rutgers College.
(d) Boston College.

4. The first known Europeans to reach the Americas were who during the 11th century?
(a) The Portugese.
(b) The Vikings.
(c) The Italians.
(d) The Druids.

5. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas killed what great animal by sacrificing an orphan baby to it?
(a) A lion.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A bear.
(d) A tiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?

2. The Walking Purchase gave Pennsylvania as much land as a person could walk in how much time?

3. Chapter 6 contains an essay called "Indian vs. White Civilization," which was written in what year?

4. When was First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History published by the author?

5. Smallpox is believed to have emerged in human populations about what time?

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