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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 the name of the governor of New France who traveled to Iroquois country to try to bluff his way to making the Iroquois stop trading with the English?

2. In what year did George Washington order the destruction of around forty Iroquois towns during the Revolutionary War?

3. The first text in Chapter 4 is from what year, when a governor of New France traveled to Iroquois country to try to bluff his way to making the Iroquois stop trading with the English?

4. In a speech from 1756, the leaders of what tribe, known for their ferocious fights against the French, plead for support in fighting the French?

5. A speech by a Chippewa chief named what rejected the presumption that the English were simply going to inherit Indian lands gained by the French in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What disputes led to the Indian Nonintercourse Act? When was it signed into law?

2. What did the Native Americans feel about the French and Indian War? What is revealed in a 1758 speech about the war in Chapter 4?

3. What text in Chapter 4 describes the motivations of the French to the Iroquois? What is the response to this text?

4. Who is berated in a speech by Atiwaneto in Chapter 4? Why?

5. What was the Native American response to the Peace of Paris? Why?

6. Why did Minavavana scold the British in his speech in Chapter 4?

7. Describe the Walking Purchase of 1737. Who was affected by this deal?

8. When did Pontiac's War take place? What results arose from the war?

9. What Native American spoke at the Treaty of Lancaster conference? What is reprinted of this speaker in Chapter 3?

10. In what action was Joseph Brant instrumental during the American Revolution?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the journey of the Kasihtas in Chekilli's creation story. How does the plight of the tribe metaphorically relate to the plight of Native Americans in the face of colonization?

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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