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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. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 35,000.
(c) 46,000.
(d) 68,000.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) A Great Bear.
(b) A Great Buffalo.
(c) A Great Turtle.
(d) A Great Fox.

5. What is defined as a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form?
(a) Creationism.
(b) Custom.
(c) Myth.
(d) Analogy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and who?

3. When did John Eliot come to America?

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

5. Where was Eleazar Wheelock born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What were "client chiefs" and how were they used in controlling the Indians, according to the author in the Introduction?

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

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

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

10. What led Samson Occom to convert to Christianity?

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