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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did John Eliot come to America?
(a) 1604.
(b) 1631.
(c) 1690.
(d) 1869.

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

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

5. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago is given the gift of corn from whom?
(a) His mother.
(b) The "Great Spirit."
(c) The Great Turtle.
(d) Tawiskaron.

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

7. What refers to a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities?
(a) Emissary.
(b) Debutante.
(c) Missionary.
(d) Conquistador.

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

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

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

11. 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) Client chiefs.
(c) Cage chiefs.
(d) Integrated chiefs.

12. What word did the Delaware and Mahican Indians use for "Supreme Being"?
(a) Atiwaneto.
(b) Wigwam.
(c) Mannito.
(d) Metis.

13. What refers to the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory?
(a) Colonialism.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Exportism.
(d) Capitalism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Mohawk Major John Norton was known as what by his people?

2. The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is probably the pustular rash on the mummified body of whom?

3. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the West opened up, and a tribe named the Kasihtas settled near a mountain so great and thunderous they called it what?

4. The text by Josiah Jeremy in Chapter 1 relates a story about the first sighting of what?

5. Eleazar Wheelock founded the Moor's Indian Charity School in what year?

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