View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which group of Indians became the first in New England to disown Philip?
(a) Nantucket Indians.
(b) Massachusetts Indians.
(c) Narragansett Indians.
(d) Pokanoket Indians.

2. What nation did Massasoit establish during the years after the Wessagussett raid?
(a) Wampanoag.
(b) Cummaquid.
(c) Massachusett.
(d) Wessagussett.

3. When was Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" published?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1734.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1677.

4. In Chapter 9, where did Miles Standish travel to pick up some corn?
(a) Sowams.
(b) Manomet.
(c) Patuxet.
(d) Mattapoisett.

5. What did Thomas Morton build instead of a wall?
(a) A threshing floor.
(b) A maypole.
(c) A fort.
(d) A barn.

6. Who decided to escape the sorry settlement of Wessagusett and find his way to Plymouth?
(a) Rogers.
(b) John Hamden.
(c) Edward Johnson.
(d) Phineas Pratt.

7. Who became pastor at Plymouth in 1667?
(a) John Cotton.
(b) William Bradford.
(c) John Robinson.
(d) Roger Williams.

8. What percentage of the land in New England was suitable for farming?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 5 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 20 percent.

9. Who believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian?
(a) Major Simon Willard.
(b) Richard Beers.
(c) Captain Samuel Moseley.
(d) Captain Thomas Lathrop.

10. What prophecy had Philip's pow-wows spoken about his death?
(a) He would die at the hands of a white general.
(b) He would not die at the hands of an Englishman.
(c) He would die at the hands of a white woman.
(d) He would die at the hands of an Englishman.

11. Who began equipping the Natives Americans with guns?
(a) John Cotton.
(b) Edward Winslow.
(c) Roger Williams.
(d) Thomas Morton.

12. Out of an estimated 400 hundred Sakonnets in 1700, how many remained in 1774?
(a) Seventy-five men and eighty women.
(b) One hundred men and fifty women.
(c) Forty men and thirty women.
(d) Six men and nineteen women.

13. What happened to Philip's nine-year-old son?
(a) Given to the Sakonnets.
(b) Went to live with the Narragansetts.
(c) Went to live in Swansea.
(d) Sold into slavery.

14. What English woman was taken captive in Lancaster?
(a) Penelope Winslow.
(b) Sarah Winslow.
(c) Mary Rowlandson.
(d) Alice Church.

15. What group did Massasoit lead in his later years?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Pequot.
(c) Quabaugs.
(d) Naraganassett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Massasoit put at the bottom of his last Plymouth land deed?

2. Where were the Praying Indians relocated in Chapter 14?

3. What type of a new American came into being after King Philip's War?

4. Which colony had relied on friendly Indians from the very start of the conflict?

5. Who did Bradford blame for the difficulties the Pilgrims had paying off the colony's debt?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 407 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample