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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. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas proved their seniority among the other tribes by having a great war, and accumulating more what than other tribes?

3. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago is given the gift of corn from whom?

4. What is defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil?

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

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

3. What great spirit attacks the central tribe in Chekilli's creation story from Chapter 1? How does the tribe overcome the adversity?

4. What ability did Teharonghyawago gain from the spirit world in John Norton's creation story from Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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