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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?
(a) Tipi.
(b) Attawam.
(c) Wigwam.
(d) Pagoda.

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

3. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, the daughter of the "Great Spirit" has two children, Teharonghyawago and who?
(a) Kasihtas.
(b) Tawiskaron.
(c) Teyoninhokovrawen.
(d) Teharonghyawago.

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

5. What term refers to the adoption of a new religious identity?
(a) Transcription.
(b) Conversion.
(c) Convolution.
(d) Transgression.

6. Where did Samsom Occom settle, set up a school, marry, attend to the sick and to burials, and perform other priestly duties?
(a) Windham, Connecticut.
(b) Salem, Massachusetts.
(c) Montauk, New York.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

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

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

9. What is defined as a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form?
(a) Custom.
(b) Myth.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Creationism.

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

11. The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and who?
(a) The Apache people.
(b) The Mapuche people.
(c) The Aztec people.
(d) The Iriquois people.

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

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

14. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, who kills the daughter of the "Great Spirit" in childbirth by trying to exit the womb from "the side"?
(a) Teyoninhokovrawen.
(b) Teharonghyawago.
(c) Kasihtas.
(d) Tawiskaron.

15. When was Samson Occom born?
(a) 1723.
(b) 1705.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1700.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 1, an Iroquois creation story provided by John Norton was dated from what year?

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

4. 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?

5. Samsom Occom had problems with what dying on him, leading him into debt?

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