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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word did the Delaware and Mahican Indians use for "Supreme Being"?
(a) Atiwaneto.
(b) Mannito.
(c) Wigwam.
(d) Metis.

2. Joseph Mittark was accused of illegitimately selling the lands of his people to the governor of what state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Virginia.
(c) New York.
(d) Illinois.

3. The Walking Purchase gave Pennsylvania as much land as a person could walk in how much time?
(a) Three and a half days.
(b) Two days.
(c) A day and a half.
(d) Four days.

4. In what year were 96 Delaware Indians murdered by American militia because the militia believed the Indians were plotting against them?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1778.
(c) 1777.
(d) 1782.

5. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, Teharonghyawago is given the gift of corn from whom?
(a) The "Great Spirit."
(b) His mother.
(c) The Great Turtle.
(d) Tawiskaron.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Colonel William Crawford die?

2. In 2004, the Delaware Nation filed suit against Pennsylvania in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, seeking how many acres included in the Walking Purchase?

3. By way of the Walking Purchase, the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of how many acres in Pennsylvania?

4. In Chapter 1, an Iroquois creation story provided by John Norton was dated from what year?

5. The text by Josiah Jeremy in Chapter 1 relates a story about the first sighting of what?

(see the answer key)

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