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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. By way of the Walking Purchase, the Penn family and proprietors claimed an area of how many acres in Pennsylvania?
2. In Chapter 3, Penobscot recounted his part in the negotiations, in which he never stated anything about handing over land but only that he wished for what?
3. A speech in what year by a Chippewa chief rejected the presumption that the English were simply going to inherit Indian lands gained by the French?
4. In what year was the Treaty of Fort Stanwix concluded between the Iroquois and English delegate Sir William Johnson?
5. The Treaty of Lancaster was a treaty concluded between the Six Nations and the colonies of Virginia and what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What text in Chapter 4 describes the motivations of the French to the Iroquois? What is the response to this text?
2. What Native American spoke at the Treaty of Lancaster conference? What is reprinted of this speaker in Chapter 3?
3. What text included in Chapter 3 relates the account of Penobscot? What does it concern?
4. How were the Cherokee Indians impacted by the American Revolution? What rift took place amongst the tribe?
5. How is the "guardian system" described in Chapter 3? When and where was it enacted?
6. Why did Minavavana scold the British in his speech in Chapter 4?
7. Who did the Chickasaw Indians make a speech to in Chapter 4? Why?
8. When was the Treaty of Fort Stanwix signed? Who opposed it?
9. How is the American strategy for dealing with the Indians during the American Revolution described in Chapter 5? What founding fathers are discussed?
10. What was the subject of the speech by the Oneida Indians in Chapter 5? What was the outcome for these people in the war?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Samson Occom and Reverend Eleazar Wheelock. When and where were each of these individuals born? What impact did each have on the Native American community?
Essay Topic 2
Describe John Norton and his relationship to the Iroquois people. When did Norton's creation story from Chapter 1 originate?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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