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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Europeanism.
(b) Francocism.
(c) Anglicism.
(d) Eurocentricism.

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

3. What refers to the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Irony.
(c) Literacy.
(d) Symbolism.

4. 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 tiger.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A bear.

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

6. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the West opened up, and a tribe named the Kasihtas settled near a mountain so great and thunderous they called it what?
(a) The King of Mountains.
(b) The Great Mountain.
(c) The Great Bear.
(d) The Mountain of Heaven.

7. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, how many tribes did the Kasihtas meet by the mountain?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

8. Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" in what year?
(a) 1701.
(b) 1607.
(c) 1771.
(d) 1602.

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

10. What term means having a vocabulary composed primarily of short, simple words?
(a) Eloquent.
(b) Minisyllabic.
(c) Significant.
(d) Monosyllabic.

11. 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) 46,000.
(d) 100,000.

12. The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to what year?
(a) 1601.
(b) 1492.
(c) 1549.
(d) 1459.

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

14. The Mohawk Major John Norton was known as what by his people?
(a) Haudenosaunee.
(b) Tyendinaga.
(c) Thayendanega.
(d) Teyoninhokovrawen.

15. Where was John Heckewelder born?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Bedford, England.
(d) London, England.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. When was John Heckewelder born?

4. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, white feathers mean what symbolically?

5. What refers to money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete or public official?

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