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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first known Europeans to reach the Americas were who during the 11th century?
(a) The Vikings.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Druids.
(d) The Portugese.

2. Samsom Occom began to study theology at the "Lattin School" of Eleazar Wheelock in what year?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1615.
(d) 1785.

3. The Indian Nonintercourse Act is the collective name given to how many statutes passed by the United States Congress?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

4. Some estimates indicate case fatality rates of what percentage in Native American populations during smallpox epidemics?
(a) 40-50%.
(b) 60-70%.
(c) 80-90%.
(d) 70-80%.

5. At what age was Samsom Occom first exposed to the teachings of Christian evangelical preachers?
(a) 16.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, red feathers mean what symbolically?

2. Penobscot participated in a land negotiation for an area called what in present-day Maine?

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

4. The Walking Purchase was a purported agreement between the Penn family and what native tribe?

5. In the Iroquois creation story of John Norton's in Chapter 1, the daughter of the "Great Spirit" has two children, Teharonghyawago and who?

(see the answer key)

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