View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a speech from 1756, the leaders of what tribe, known for their ferocious fights against the French, plead for support in fighting the French?
(a) The Catawbas.
(b) The Apaches.
(c) The Chickasaw Indians.
(d) The Abenaki people.

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

3. The French and Indian War ended in what year?
(a) 1758.
(b) 1754.
(c) 1756.
(d) 1763.

4. Chief Pontiac was born in approximately what year?
(a) 1720.
(b) 1708.
(c) 1700.
(d) 1763.

5. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, a "Great Spirit" punishes his daughter for what by casting her down a great hole in the heavens?
(a) Becoming pregnant out of wedlock.
(b) Falling in love with a mortal.
(c) Killing her brother.
(d) Disobeying his will.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John Eliot die?

2. The first text reprinted in Chapter 3 is a "Act of Submission" written by what tribe?

3. In what year did the Delaware Indians give a speech stating their belief that the English caused the French and Indian War, as described in Chapter 4?

4. What dealt a terrible blow to many Indian tribes, leading to further dependence on European goods and foolish land deals?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 217 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample