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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. Where was John Heckewelder born?

2. Smallpox killed what estimated number of Europeans per year during the closing years of the 18th century?

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

4. When did John Eliot come to America?

5. What dealt a terrible blow to many Indian tribes, leading to further dependence on European goods and foolish land deals?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What were methods of the Native Americans to bolster their numbers, as discussed in Chapter 2?

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

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

9. How involved were Native Americans in colonial society? What does the author write of their role in shaping America in the Introduction?

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

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

Analyze and discuss the text of Mary Jemison in Chapter 2. How did Jemison feel about her captors? How did this relationship change?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the "discovery" and colonization of Manhattan, John Heckewelder, and the Mahican people. Where were the Mahican's primarily dwelling when the Dutch settlers arrived?

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