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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, John Heckewelder relates a "verbatim" account from the Delaware and Mahican Indians of the Dutch landing in an area that is now known as what?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) Cape May, Massachusetts.
(c) Manhattan, New York.
(d) Queens, New York.

2. The Chichimeca War was a military conflict waged between Spanish colonizers against a confederation of Chichimeca Indians during what years?
(a) 1250-1270.
(b) 1620-1630.
(c) 1600-1665.
(d) 1550-1590.

3. When was John Eliot born?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1604.
(d) 1610.

4. Samsom Occom began to study theology at the "Lattin School" of Eleazar Wheelock in what year?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1615.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1785.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John Eliot die?

2. What word refers to the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective and with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture?

3. What refers to both the process and product of planning, designing and construction of buildings or structures?

4. What is defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil?

5. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas followed a tribe called what for many years over different kinds of terrain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ability did Teharonghyawago gain from the spirit world in John Norton's creation story from Chapter 1?

2. Why does the author reason that some Indians turned to Christianity in Chapter 2? What was the result?

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

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

5. How did European trade impact the Native American peoples, as discussed in the Introduction?

6. How did the differences in literacy between the Indians and colonists affect land deals, as discussed in the Introduction?

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

8. What does the author suggest the reader keep in mind regarding Indian oratory history and literacy in the Introduction?

9. What text of Samson Occom's is included in Chapter 2? Who was Occom?

10. How involved were Native Americans in colonial society? What does the author write of their role in shaping America in the Introduction?

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