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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. The text by Josiah Jeremy in Chapter 1 relates a story about the first sighting of what?

2. What term means having a vocabulary composed primarily of short, simple words?

3. What refers to both the process and product of planning, designing and construction of buildings or structures?

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

5. In Chapter 1, an Iroquois creation story provided by John Norton was dated from what year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What led Samson Occom to convert to Christianity?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the devastation of the Native American community due to smallpox, measles and other disease brought from the Old World. How many Native American tribes were wiped out completely by disease?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the biography of Josiah Jeremy and his relationship to the Micmac people. Where did the Micmacs live in North America?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the text of the Micmac Indian in Chapter 2. What elements of European culture are criticized by the Native American and why?

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