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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To help control Indian populations, Europeans would install what, who would support European interests, which included sending Indian warriors into European wars?
(a) Political chiefs.
(b) Integrated chiefs.
(c) Client chiefs.
(d) Cage chiefs.

2. Smallpox is believed to have emerged in human populations about what time?
(a) 5,000 B.C.
(b) 15,000 B.C.
(c) 10,000 B.C.
(d) 1,000 B.C.

3. 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?
(a) Disobeying his will.
(b) Becoming pregnant out of wedlock.
(c) Falling in love with a mortal.
(d) Killing her brother.

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

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

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) Treason.
(c) Ransom.
(d) Incentive.

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

8. Samson Occom is believed to be a direct descendant of what famous Mohegan chief?
(a) Atiwaneto.
(b) Uncas.
(c) Joseph Brant.
(d) Penobscot.

9. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, an image of the earth is described as sitting on the back of what?
(a) A Great Bear.
(b) A Great Fox.
(c) A Great Buffalo.
(d) A Great Turtle.

10. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Tawiskaron proves to be a great what?
(a) Painter.
(b) Singer.
(c) Fisherman.
(d) Hunter.

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

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

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

14. According to the author in Chapter 2, in addition to intermarriage, some tribes sought to bolster their numbers by what means?
(a) Selling children.
(b) Capturing Europeans.
(c) Converting to Christianity.
(d) Converting other tribes.

15. When did John Heckewelder die?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1604.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1823.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil?

2. What word did the Delaware and Mahican Indians use for "Supreme Being"?

3. At what age was Samsom Occom first exposed to the teachings of Christian evangelical preachers?

4. What means to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition?

5. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago grows up how?

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