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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is probably the pustular rash on the mummified body of whom?
(a) King Edward I.
(b) Pharaoh Thutmose III.
(c) Pharaoh Ramses V.
(d) Pharaoh Sekhemib-Perenmaat.

2. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas followed a tribe called what for many years over different kinds of terrain?
(a) The Apache people.
(b) The Micmac Indians.
(c) The Apalachicolas.
(d) The Cherokee people.

3. 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) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Salem, Massachusetts.
(d) Montauk, New York.

4. The text by Josiah Jeremy in Chapter 1 is dated when?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1604.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1823.

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

6. 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?
(a) Bribe.
(b) Ransom.
(c) Treason.
(d) Incentive.

7. What dealt a terrible blow to many Indian tribes, leading to further dependence on European goods and foolish land deals?
(a) Opium addiction.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Marijuana addiction.
(d) Caffeine addiction.

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

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

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

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

12. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas were attacked by the King of what with a bow and arrow?
(a) Bears.
(b) Lions.
(c) Birds.
(d) Wolves.

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

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

15. 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) Metaphor.
(b) Syllogism.
(c) Idiom.
(d) Allegory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the French call children of European and Indian parentage?

2. When did Eleazar Wheelock die?

3. What term means having a vocabulary composed primarily of short, simple words?

4. When did John Heckewelder die?

5. What was a Christian revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion?

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