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

2. Smallpox probably diverged from an ancestral African rodent-borne variola-like virus between 16,000 and how many years ago?

3. John Norton played a prominent role in what conflict, leading Iroquois warriors from Grand River into battle against American invaders?

4. When was John Eliot born?

5. When was John Norton born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did a Micmac Indian compare his people's housing structures versus those of the colonists in a text from 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 does the author assert of the attributes and differences between colonial civilization and Native American civilization in Chapter 1?

4. Why does the author reason that some Indians turned to Christianity in Chapter 2? What was the result?

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

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

7. What led Samson Occom to convert to Christianity?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe John Norton and his relationship to the Iroquois people. When did Norton's creation story from Chapter 1 originate?

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