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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in what year?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1991.

3. In Chapter 1, an Iroquois creation story provided by John Norton was dated from what year?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1826.
(c) 1816.
(d) 1775.

4. John Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, on what ship?
(a) Kingfisher.
(b) Albatross.
(c) Lyon.
(d) Mercenary.

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

6. 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?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Heads.
(c) Allies.
(d) Scalps.

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

8. The Moor's Indian Charity School moved to Hanover, New Hampshire to become what institution?
(a) Boston College.
(b) Harvard College.
(c) Dartmouth College.
(d) Rutgers College.

9. Smallpox was responsible for how many estimated deaths during the 20th century?
(a) 600-800 million.
(b) 100-300 million.
(c) 300-500 million.
(d) 100-200 million.

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

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

12. 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) Joseph Brant.
(b) Piumbukhou.
(c) Atiwaneto.
(d) Penobscot.

13. John Norton played a prominent role in what conflict, leading Iroquois warriors from Grand River into battle against American invaders?
(a) Red Cloud's War.
(b) The French and Indian War.
(c) The War of 1812.
(d) King Philip's War.

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

15. When was Eleazar Wheelock born?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1615.
(d) 1711.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Eleazar Wheelock die?

2. When did Samson Occom die?

3. According to the author in Chapter 2, in addition to intermarriage, some tribes sought to bolster their numbers by what means?

4. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, red feathers mean what symbolically?

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

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