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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil?

4. In Chapter 1, John Heckewelder relates a "verbatim" account from the Delaware and Mahican Indians of the Dutch landing in an area that is now known as what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What image of the earth's creation is described in John Norton's creation story in Chapter 1? Who was Norton?

2. What does the author assert of the attributes and differences between colonial civilization and Native American civilization in Chapter 1?

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

4. How is John Eliot described in Chapter 2? What did Eliot achieve amongst the Indians?

5. What were "client chiefs" and how were they used in controlling the Indians, according to the author in the Introduction?

6. How does the author describe the Eurocentric view of America's discovery versus the reality of Indian culture in the Introduction?

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

8. What did a Micmac Indian assert of European wealth in a text from Chapter 2?

9. How did the differences in literacy between the Indians and colonists affect land deals, as discussed in the Introduction?

10. What ability did Teharonghyawago gain from the spirit world in John Norton's creation story from Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the history and origins of storytelling in Native American culture. In what ways do the structures of Native American folktales and myths relate to European and other narrative structures?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss John Eliot, early European Christian missionaries in the colonies, and the establishment of praying towns among the Native Americans. When did Eliot establish his first praying town?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the devastation of the Native American community due to smallpox, measles and other disease brought from the Old World. How many Native American tribes were wiped out completely by disease?

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