Directions: The passage below is followed by questions
based on its content. Once you have read the passage, select the answer choice
that best answers each question. Answer all questions on the basis of what is
stated or implied in the passage. For each of Questions 17-20,
select one answer choice unless otherwise instructed. Questions
17-18 are based on the following passage. The stability
that had marked the Iroquois Confederacy’s generally
pro-British position was shattered with the overthrow of James
II Line in 1688, the colonial uprisings that followed (5) in
Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland, and the commencement of
King William’s War against Louis XIV of France. The
increasing French threat to English hege- mony in the
interior of North America was (10) signalized by French-led or
French-inspired attacks on the Iroquois and on
outlying colonial settlements in New York and New
England. The high point of the Iroquois response was the
spectacular raid of August (15) 5, 1689, in which the Iroquois
virtually wiped out the French village of Lachine,
just outside Montreal. A counter-raid by the
French on the English village of Schenectady in March 1690
instilled an appropriate (20) measure of fear among the English
and their Iroquois allies. The Iroquois
position at the end of the war, which was formalized by
treaties made during the summer of 1701 with the
British (25) and the French, and which was maintained
throughout most of the eighteenth century, was one of
"aggressive neutrality" between the two competing European
powers. Under the new system the Iroquois initiated a
peace (30) policy toward the "far Indians," tightened
their control over the nearby tribes, and induced both
English and French to support their neutrality toward the
European powers by appropriate gifts and concessions. The author’s primary purpose in this passage is to
A. denounce the imperialistic policies of the French
B. disprove the charges of barbarism made against the Indian nations
C. expose the French government’s exploitation of the Iroqu6is balance of
power
D. describe and assess the effect of European military power on the policy
of an Indian nation
E. show the inability of the Iroquois to engage in European-style
diplomacy