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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the Kasihtas were attacked by the King of what with a bow and arrow?
(a) Birds.
(b) Wolves.
(c) Lions.
(d) Bears.

2. John Norton played a prominent role in what conflict, leading Iroquois warriors from Grand River into battle against American invaders?
(a) The French and Indian War.
(b) Red Cloud's War.
(c) King Philip's War.
(d) The War of 1812.

3. What was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558?
(a) Anglicism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Calvinism.
(d) Puritanism.

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

5. In Chekilli's creation story of the Creek people, the West opened up, and a tribe named the Kasihtas settled near a mountain so great and thunderous they called it what?
(a) The King of Mountains.
(b) The Great Mountain.
(c) The Mountain of Heaven.
(d) The Great Bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form?

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

3. Where was John Heckewelder born?

4. Where was Eleazar Wheelock born?

5. When was Mary Jemison captured by the Seneca tribe and taken to western New York?

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