View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where was John Eliot born?
(a) Dublin, Ireland.
(b) Ross, Scotland.
(c) London, England.
(d) Hertfordshire, England.

4. The Chichimeca War was a military conflict waged between Spanish colonizers against a confederation of Chichimeca Indians during what years?
(a) 1620-1630.
(b) 1550-1590.
(c) 1250-1270.
(d) 1600-1665.

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

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

7. What refers to both the process and product of planning, designing and construction of buildings or structures?
(a) Ecology.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Endography.
(d) Topography.

8. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?
(a) Wigwam.
(b) Pagoda.
(c) Attawam.
(d) Tipi.

9. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?
(a) 46,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 68,000.
(d) 35,000.

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

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

12. 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?
(a) The Great Bear.
(b) The Mountain of Heaven.
(c) The King of Mountains.
(d) The Great Mountain.

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

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

15. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago grows up how?
(a) Alone and unloved.
(b) Rich and powerful.
(c) Adored and spoiled.
(d) Peacefully and happily.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago is given the gift of corn from whom?

2. After vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in what year?

3. Samsom Occom began to study theology at the "Lattin School" of Eleazar Wheelock in what year?

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

5. Of what tribe was Josiah Jeremy?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 451 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample