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

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

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

6. John Eliot wrote a series of fictional "dialogues" such as one which is reprinted in Chapter 2 describing a converted Indian named what who returns to his native village?
(a) Piumbukhou.
(b) Joseph Brant.
(c) Penobscot.
(d) Atiwaneto.

7. When was John Eliot born?
(a) 1604.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1610.

8. 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) Kasihtas.
(b) Teharonghyawago.
(c) Teyoninhokovrawen.
(d) Tawiskaron.

9. Samsom Occom began to study theology at the "Lattin School" of Eleazar Wheelock in what year?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1615.

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

11. 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?
(a) The French and Indian War.
(b) King Philip's War.
(c) Red Cloud's War.
(d) The Battle of Red Wing.

12. When did Samson Occom die?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1777.
(d) 1812.

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

14. 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%.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. To help control Indian populations, Europeans would install what, who would support European interests, which included sending Indian warriors into European wars?

2. When was Eleazar Wheelock born?

3. Samson Occom is believed to be a direct descendant of what famous Mohegan chief?

4. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?

5. When did Eleazar Wheelock die?

(see the answer keys)

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