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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Bradford blame for the difficulties the Pilgrims had paying off the colony's debt?
(a) Isaac Allerton.
(b) Weston.
(c) Roger Conant.
(d) Roger Williams.

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

3. Who became the first English mayor of Manhattan?
(a) Francis Cook.
(b) Thomas Willett.
(c) John Leverett.
(d) Benjamin Church.

4. What vandalism in 1675 caused Governor Winslow to ask for assistance from the Massachusetts Bay colony?
(a) Crops were destroyed.
(b) Boats were damaged.
(c) The church was destroyed.
(d) Burning of two houses.

5. What did Bradford study the last days of his life?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) Latin.
(c) Greek.
(d) The Massachusetts language.

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

7. What ominous event occurred the night of June 26, 1675.
(a) Total eclipse of the moon.
(b) An large piece of an asteroid fell on the ground.
(c) A meteor shower.
(d) A midnight raid.

8. Why was Arthur Peach hanged in 1638?
(a) Because he killed Standish.
(b) Because he killed his brother.
(c) Because he attacked Bradford.
(d) Because he killed an Indian.

9. What ability had the Pilgrims temporarily ruined after the Wessagusett raid?
(a) Ability to trade.
(b) Their relationship with Massasoit.
(c) Their relationship with Canacum.
(d) Their relationship with Iyanough.

10. What did some Massachusetts authorities consider building when conditions became so desperate and winter was approaching?
(a) A fort.
(b) A palisade wall.
(c) Cannon platforms.
(d) Barracks.

11. In December 1675, who became the leader of over 1,000 English soldiers?
(a) Josiah Winslow.
(b) Samuel Moseley.
(c) Benjamin Church.
(d) James Cudworth.

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

13. What did Winslow designate Thursday, June 24, 1675?
(a) A day of prayer.
(b) A day of feasting.
(c) A day of fasting and humiliation.
(d) A day of celebration.

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

15. What did England become after the death of King Charles?
(a) A oligarchy.
(b) A Catholic state.
(c) A Puritan state.
(d) An autocracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who insisted that the Indians were the legal owners of their lands?

2. What did the Pilgrims insist be secured before any Native land purchases could proceed?

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

4. Who did Bradford learn died in 1625?

5. When the Sakonets wished to stay out of the conflict, where did Bradford ask them to go?

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