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

2. Samsom Occom had problems with what dying on him, leading him into debt?

3. Where was John Heckewelder born?

4. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago grows up how?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the author assert of the attributes and differences between colonial civilization and Native American civilization in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Columbus' journey to the Americas, the subsequent European colonization of the continent, and the culture and customs of Native Americans prior to and post European colonization. How does the reality of Native American civilization differ from the Eurocentric viewpoint?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the narrative structure, symbolism and themes in Josiah Jeremy's narrative of the arrival of European missionaries. How is color used symbolically in the story?

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