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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. When did Eleazar Wheelock die?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1615.
(d) 1792.

2. 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 Apache people.
(b) The Cherokee people.
(c) The Apalachicolas.
(d) The Micmac Indians.

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

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

5. What refers to money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete or public official?
(a) Treason.
(b) Ransom.
(c) Incentive.
(d) Bribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Norton was adopted by the Mohawks, with who as his uncle?

2. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, white feathers mean what symbolically?

3. What is defined as a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form?

4. When was Eleazar Wheelock born?

5. When was Samson Occom born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the children of the daughter of the Great Spirit in John Norton's creation story from Chapter 1. Who raised the children?

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

10. What great spirit attacks the central tribe in Chekilli's creation story from Chapter 1? How does the tribe overcome the adversity?

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