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Sequoyah Score:

1.What tribe was Sequoyah a member of?

A Iroquois

B Cherokee

C Crow

D Pawnee

E Inuit

2.Sequoyah was a metal worker

A True

B False

3.What did Seqouyah invent?

A the Cherokee Syllabary

B the dog sled

C the first bow

D teppes

4.The Cherokee Syllabary was an alphabet for the Cherokee language?

A True

B False

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5.Why is the Cherokee Syllabary important?

6.Who was the first person taught to write using the Cherokee Syllabary?
A Sequoyah's son

B Sequoyah's daughter

C Sequoyah's wife

D the Chief of the Cherokee tribe

7.All of the Cherokee people supported the creation and usage of the Cherokee
Syllabary.
A True

B False

8.Both of Sequoyah's parents were Cherokee.

A True

B False

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9.What was Sequoyah doing when he died?
A Looking for the lost city of Atlantis

B Trying to break the world record for longest hike.

C Buying new territories for the Cherokee people.

D Searching Mexico for Cherokee bands to persuade them to return to

the Cherokee nation in the United states.

10.Sequoyah was awarded a silver medal by the General Council of the Eastern
Cherokees for the invention of the Cherokee Syllabary.
A True

B False

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