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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 the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Tawiskaron proves to be a great what?
(a) Singer.
(b) Hunter.
(c) Fisherman.
(d) Painter.

2. What was a Christian revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion?
(a) The Great Awakening.
(b) The Spanish Inquisition.
(c) The White Awakening.
(d) The Middle Ages.

3. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, the daughter of the "Great Spirit" has two children, Teharonghyawago and who?
(a) Tawiskaron.
(b) Teyoninhokovrawen.
(c) Kasihtas.
(d) Teharonghyawago.

4. When was Mary Jemison captured by the Seneca tribe and taken to western New York?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1758.
(c) 1790.
(d) 1769.

5. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, white feathers mean what symbolically?
(a) Love.
(b) Justice.
(c) Peace.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas killed what great animal by sacrificing an orphan baby to it?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did a Micmac Indian assert of European wealth in a text from Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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