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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was John Heckewelder born?
(a) 1604.
(b) 1743.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1823.

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

3. What is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance?
(a) Syllogism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Idiom.

4. The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and who?
(a) The Apache people.
(b) The Aztec people.
(c) The Mapuche people.
(d) The Iriquois people.

5. Smallpox killed what estimated number of Europeans per year during the closing years of the 18th century?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 600,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is probably the pustular rash on the mummified body of whom?

3. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas followed a tribe called what for many years over different kinds of terrain?

4. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas killed what great animal by sacrificing an orphan baby to it?

5. What refers to human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.?

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