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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558?
(a) Puritanism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Anglicism.

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

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

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

8. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas killed what great animal by sacrificing an orphan baby to it?
(a) A bear.
(b) A lion.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A tiger.

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

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

11. Samsom Occom had problems with what dying on him, leading him into debt?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Horses.
(c) Corn crops.
(d) Cattle.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What dealt a terrible blow to many Indian tribes, leading to further dependence on European goods and foolish land deals?

3. 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?

4. What term refers to the adoption of a new religious identity?

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?

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