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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, an Iroquois creation story provided by John Norton was dated from what year?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1826.
(c) 1816.
(d) 1775.

2. Smallpox killed what estimated number of Europeans per year during the closing years of the 18th century?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 600,000.

3. What is the most severe and common form of smallpox, with a more extensive rash and higher fever?
(a) Variola incubus.
(b) Variola minor.
(c) Variola major.
(d) Variola sine eruptione.

4. What refers to a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities?
(a) Debutante.
(b) Missionary.
(c) Conquistador.
(d) Emissary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries?

2. The Mohawk Major John Norton was known as what by his people?

3. Where was John Heckewelder born?

4. The start of the European colonization of the Americas is typically dated to what year?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is John Eliot described in Chapter 2? What did Eliot achieve amongst the Indians?

2. How did smallpox impact the Native American peoples, as discussed in the Introduction?

3. What tribe did the central tribe follow in Chekilli's creation story from Chapter 1? What moral did the tribe learn?

4. In what types of structures did the Native Americans reside? What were the attributes of these structures?

5. What were methods of the Native Americans to bolster their numbers, as discussed in Chapter 2?

6. What led Samson Occom to convert to Christianity?

7. How did the Native Americans receive the Dutch in John Heckewelder's text in Chapter 1? Why?

8. What does the author assert of the attributes and differences between colonial civilization and Native American civilization in Chapter 1?

9. What grievances did Powhatan describe in Captain John Smith's text from Chapter 1?

10. How does the author describe the oratory skills of the Native Americans in regard to the stereotype in the Introduction?

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