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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Walking Purchase gave Pennsylvania as much land as a person could walk in how much time?
(a) Two days.
(b) A day and a half.
(c) Three and a half days.
(d) Four days.

2. Where was Colonel William Crawford born?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Orange County, Virginia.

3. When did Phineas Stevens die?
(a) 1706.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1658.
(d) 1762.

4. When did the American Revolutionary War end?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1783.
(c) 1779.
(d) 1775.

5. Thomas Jefferson was governor of what state when he urged extermination of Shawnees in Ohio?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Delaware.

6. In the first text from Chapter 5, Oneida Indians express their desire to remain neutral in the conflict in a speech to the governor of what state?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Maryland.

7. In a speech from 1756, the leaders of what tribe, known for their ferocious fights against the French, plead for support in fighting the French?
(a) The Chickasaw Indians.
(b) The Abenaki people.
(c) The Apaches.
(d) The Catawbas.

8. 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) 800,000.
(d) 1,200,000.

9. In what year did the Delaware Indians give a speech stating their belief that the English caused the French and Indian War, as described in Chapter 4?
(a) 1754.
(b) 1758.
(c) 1763.
(d) 1756.

10. 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) 1771.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1768.
(d) 1769.

11. A speech was given by what Oneida Indian in Chapter 4, promising to uphold the peace between the tribe and the English, but questioning the English for using Indians to fight their wars for them?
(a) Cheda.
(b) Garangula.
(c) La Barre.
(d) Gachadow.

12. In what year did the French and Indian War erupt into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War?
(a) 1758.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1763.
(d) 1754.

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

14. The French and Indian War ended in what year?
(a) 1754.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1758.
(d) 1763.

15. Chief Pontiac was a leader of what Native American tribe?
(a) The Cherokee people.
(b) The Ouachita people.
(c) The Ottawa people.
(d) The Apache people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Colonel William Crawford was tortured and burnt at the stake by American Indians in retaliation for what incident?

2. Joseph Mittark was accused of illegitimately selling the lands of his people to the governor of what state?

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

4. Chief Pontiac was born in approximately what year?

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

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