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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did a Delaware chief named John Killbuck make a speech correctly doubting that the white man will be satisfied with the Ohio River boundary?
(a) 1768.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1771.
(d) 1769.

2. What refers to the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected?
(a) Larceny.
(b) Allimony.
(c) Forgery.
(d) Bribery.

3. In 1778, a chief named what, ceding no land, allowed Americans to cross Delaware country?
(a) White Eyes.
(b) Black Bear.
(c) White Dove.
(d) Black Lion.

4. The first text reprinted in Chapter 3 is a "Act of Submission" from what year?by the Narrangansett Indians
(a) 1644.
(b) 1758.
(c) 1685.
(d) 1769.

5. A speech by a Chippewa chief named what rejected the presumption that the English were simply going to inherit Indian lands gained by the French in Chapter 4?
(a) Garangula.
(b) Minavavana.
(c) Atiwaneto.
(d) Cheda.

6. What was the name of an Onondaga who gave the governor of New France a speech, essentially calling his bluff, in Chapter 4?
(a) La Barre.
(b) Gachadow.
(c) Cheda.
(d) Garangula.

7. When was Colonel William Crawford born?
(a) 1702.
(b) 1732.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1714.

8. Joseph Mittark was accused of illegitimately selling the lands of his people to whom?
(a) John Eliot.
(b) John Heckewelder.
(c) Joseph Brant.
(d) Thomas Dongan.

9. By way of the Walking Purchase, the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of how many acres in Pennsylvania?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 600,000.
(c) 1,200,000.
(d) 800,000.

10. In Chapter 3, Penobscot recounted his part in the negotiations, in which he never stated anything about handing over land but only that he wished for what?
(a) The freedom of slaves.
(b) Hostilities to end.
(c) Colonists to leave.
(d) Monetary repayment.

11. Joseph Brant had been taught at whose school?
(a) William Johnson's.
(b) Eleazar Wheelock's.
(c) Lord Germain's.
(d) Jeffery Amherst's.

12. Colonel William Crawford was tortured and burnt at the stake by American Indians in retaliation for what incident?
(a) The Gnadenhutten massacre.
(b) The Braddock expedition.
(c) The Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
(d) The French and Indian War.

13. In 2004, the Delaware Nation filed suit against Pennsylvania in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, seeking how many acres included in the Walking Purchase?
(a) 452.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 314.

14. In the first text from Chapter 5, Oneida Indians express their desire to remain neutral in the conflict in a speech to whom?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Joseph Brant.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Jonathan Trumbull.

15. By what year was it clear the French were defeated by the English, and that Indians allied with the French were soon going to have to deal with the English, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) 1658.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1761.
(d) 1777.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Indian Nonintercourse Act was passed by the United States Congress beginning in what year?

2. Dragging Canoe led Cherokee Indians inclined to fight whom during the American Revolutionary War?

3. Thomas Jefferson was governor of what state when he urged extermination of Shawnees in Ohio?

4. In what year were 96 Delaware Indians murdered by American militia because the militia believed the Indians were plotting against them?

5. The first text reprinted in Chapter 3 is a "Act of Submission" written by what tribe?

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