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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. To help control Indian populations, Europeans would install what, who would support European interests, which included sending Indian warriors into European wars?
(a) Political chiefs.
(b) Cage chiefs.
(c) Client chiefs.
(d) Integrated chiefs.

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

3. The first known Europeans to reach the Americas were who during the 11th century?
(a) The Vikings.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Portugese.
(d) The Druids.

4. What term means having a vocabulary composed primarily of short, simple words?
(a) Minisyllabic.
(b) Significant.
(c) Eloquent.
(d) Monosyllabic.

5. Where was John Eliot born?
(a) Dublin, Ireland.
(b) Hertfordshire, England.
(c) Ross, Scotland.
(d) London, England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.?

2. What refers to the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory?

3. John Norton played a prominent role in what conflict, leading Iroquois warriors from Grand River into battle against American invaders?

4. Of what tribe was Josiah Jeremy?

5. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas were attacked by the King of what with a bow and arrow?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What school did Reverend Eleazar Wheelock found? What letters regarding the school are included in Chapter 2?

4. How did a Micmac Indian compare his people's housing structures versus those of the colonists in a text from Chapter 2?

5. How does the author describe the Eurocentric view of America's discovery versus the reality of Indian culture in the Introduction?

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

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

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

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

10. What image of the earth's creation is described in John Norton's creation story in Chapter 1? Who was Norton?

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