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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.?
(a) Prehistory.
(b) Adhistory.
(c) Subhistory.
(d) Premodernism.

2. What refers to money or any other valuable consideration given or promised with a view to corrupting the behavior of a person, especially in that person's performance as an athlete or public official?
(a) Bribe.
(b) Ransom.
(c) Treason.
(d) Incentive.

3. When did Eleazar Wheelock die?
(a) 1615.
(b) 1779.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1802.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where was Eleazar Wheelock born?

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

5. When was John Heckewelder born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What grievances did Powhatan describe in Captain John Smith's text from Chapter 1?

2. How involved were Native Americans in colonial society? What does the author write of their role in shaping America in the Introduction?

3. What led Samson Occom to convert to Christianity?

4. What story is related in Josiah Jeremy's text from Chapter 1?

5. What great spirit attacks the central tribe in Chekilli's creation story from Chapter 1? How does the tribe overcome the adversity?

6. What were methods of the Native Americans to bolster their numbers, as discussed in Chapter 2?

7. What tribe is described in Chekilli's creation story from Chapter 1?

8. Why does the author reason that some Indians turned to Christianity in Chapter 2? What was the result?

9. How does the author describe the oratory skills of the Native Americans in regard to the stereotype in the Introduction?

10. Describe the children of the daughter of the Great Spirit in John Norton's creation story from Chapter 1. Who raised the children?

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