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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 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?

2. When was John Heckewelder born?

3. John Norton was born of a Cherokee father and a mother from where?

4. What was an armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho and the United States in the Wyoming Territory and the Montana Territory from 1866 to 1868?

5. The Mohawk Major John Norton was known as what by his people?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the housing structures and villages established amongst the Native American tribes. How much variance was there in housing structure?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss John Eliot, early European Christian missionaries in the colonies, and the establishment of praying towns among the Native Americans. When did Eliot establish his first praying town?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the impact of European political systems on Native American culture. How did the political structure of Native American civilization change as a result of European influence?

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