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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Phineas Stevens had been captured by what tribe at a young age and had learned their customs and language?
(a) The Cherokee.
(b) The Abenaki people.
(c) The Apaches.
(d) The Catawbas.

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) Bribery.
(b) Allimony.
(c) Forgery.
(d) Larceny.

3. Joseph Mittark was the sachem of what tribe?
(a) The Apache Indians.
(b) The Cherokee Indians.
(c) The Delaware Indians.
(d) The Gay Head Indians.

4. When was Dragging Canoe born?
(a) 1738.
(b) 1708.
(c) 1717.
(d) 1785.

5. In an address to whom in Chapter 5 does Joseph Brant reiterate support for Great Britain?
(a) Eleazar Wheelock.
(b) Lord Germain.
(c) William Johnson.
(d) Jeffery Amherst.

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

7. 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.

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

9. Dragging Canoe led Cherokee Indians inclined to fight whom during the American Revolutionary War?
(a) Canadians.
(b) Americans.
(c) The British.
(d) The French.

10. 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) 1777.
(b) 1658.
(c) 1756.
(d) 1761.

11. Joseph Mittark was accused of illegitimately selling the lands of his people to the governor of what state?
(a) New York.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Illinois.

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

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

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

15. The French and Indian War began in what year?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1754.
(c) 1758.
(d) 1763.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of an Onondaga who gave the governor of New France a speech, essentially calling his bluff, in Chapter 4?

2. In Chapter 4, a speech from 1752 was made by an Abenaki Indian named what to a Massachusetts emissary?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Chief Pontiac was a leader of what Native American tribe?

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