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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Mary Jemison captured by the Seneca tribe and taken to western New York?
(a) 1769.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1758.

2. 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) Francocism.
(b) Europeanism.
(c) Eurocentricism.
(d) Anglicism.

3. Some estimates indicate case fatality rates of what percentage in Native American populations during smallpox epidemics?
(a) 60-70%.
(b) 40-50%.
(c) 80-90%.
(d) 70-80%.

4. In what year did the Moor's Indian Charity School move to Hanover, New Hampshire?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1758.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1790.

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

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

7. 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) 1602.
(c) 1607.
(d) 1771.

8. What is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance?
(a) Idiom.
(b) Syllogism.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Metaphor.

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

10. 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 Great Bear.
(b) The Mountain of Heaven.
(c) The Great Mountain.
(d) The King of Mountains.

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

12. What is defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil?
(a) Contraptualism.
(b) Irrigation.
(c) Ecology.
(d) Aqualogy.

13. John Norton was adopted by the Mohawks, with who as his uncle?
(a) Joseph Brant.
(b) King Philip.
(c) Alexander McGillivray.
(d) Penobscot.

14. What is the most severe and common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever?
(a) Variola sine eruptione.
(b) Variola minor.
(c) Variola incubus.
(d) Variola major.

15. When was John Norton born?
(a) Late 1770s.
(b) Early 1750s.
(c) Early 1800s.
(d) Early 1760s.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Mohawk Major John Norton was known as what by his people?

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

3. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas were attacked by the King of what with a bow and arrow?

4. John Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, on what ship?

5. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas proved their seniority among the other tribes by having a great war, and accumulating more what than other tribes?

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