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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 Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas followed a tribe called what for many years over different kinds of terrain?
(a) The Micmac Indians.
(b) The Apache people.
(c) The Cherokee people.
(d) The Apalachicolas.

2. Where was John Heckewelder born?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) London, England.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Bedford, England.

3. Where was Eleazar Wheelock born?
(a) London, England.
(b) Windham, Connecticut.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Montauk, New York.

4. When was Eleazar Wheelock born?
(a) 1711.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1615.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance?

2. John Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, on what ship?

3. Samsom Occom began to study theology at the "Lattin School" of Eleazar Wheelock in what year?

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

5. When was John Norton born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What led Samson Occom to convert to Christianity?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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