The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Colin G. Calloway
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Colin G. Calloway
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 127 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the French call children of European and Indian parentage?

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

3. 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?

4. What refers to the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory?

5. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas were attacked by the King of what with a bow and arrow?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is John Eliot described in Chapter 2? What did Eliot achieve amongst the Indians?

2. In what ways did the Europeans take advantage of the Native Americans regarding land, as discussed in the Introduction?

3. What ability did Teharonghyawago gain from the spirit world in John Norton's creation story from Chapter 1?

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

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

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

7. How did smallpox impact the Native American peoples, as discussed in the Introduction?

8. What text of Samson Occom's is included in Chapter 2? Who was Occom?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the symbolism, themes and meaning of the Iroquois creation myth related by John Norton in Chapter 1. How does this story's structure relate to narrative structures in European folklore?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Samson Occom and Reverend Eleazar Wheelock. When and where were each of these individuals born? What impact did each have on the Native American community?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the stories related by Captain John Smith and Josiah Quinney in Chapter 1. What do these narratives relate of the Native American identity and the impact of European colonization?

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