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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. According to the author in Chapter 2, in addition to intermarriage, some tribes sought to bolster their numbers by what means?
(a) Converting to Christianity.
(b) Converting other tribes.
(c) Capturing Europeans.
(d) Selling children.

2. What term refers to the adoption of a new religious identity?
(a) Transcription.
(b) Conversion.
(c) Transgression.
(d) Convolution.

3. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas were attacked by the King of what with a bow and arrow?
(a) Birds.
(b) Lions.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Bears.

4. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas killed what great animal by sacrificing an orphan baby to it?
(a) A bear.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A lion.
(d) A tiger.

5. Smallpox is believed to have emerged in human populations about what time?
(a) 10,000 B.C.
(b) 5,000 B.C.
(c) 15,000 B.C.
(d) 1,000 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What means to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition?

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. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, an image of the earth is described as sitting on the back of what?

4. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?

5. To help control Indian populations, Europeans would install what, who would support European interests, which included sending Indian warriors into European wars?

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 tribe is described in Chekilli's creation story from Chapter 1?

3. What story is related in Josiah Jeremy's text from Chapter 1?

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

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

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

7. What led Samson Occom to convert to Christianity?

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

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

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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