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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 15, where does Church move his wife and son?
(a) Portsmouth.
(b) Rehoboth.
(c) Trenton.
(d) Boston.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Arthur Peach hanged in 1638?

2. What did England become after the death of King Charles?

3. Who did Bradford learn died in 1625?

4. Who believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian?

5. What did some of the Wessagussett settlers trade for food?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the Massachusetts planning to attack Wessagusett and Plymouth?

2. What did Roger Williams do when the Indians attacked Providence?

3. Why in the early 1640s did the Great Migration come to an end?

4. Why did Awashonks not want to drink the rum that Church brought?

5. What process did Plymouth use to remove potentially dangerous Native men and boys?

6. What marvelous change came upon Bradford as his health declined in May of 1657?

7. What happened to the Narragansett fort?

8. Why did the Plymouth's debilitating food shortages end in the fall of 1623?

9. Why did Thomas Morton represent everything the Pilgrims had come to America to escape?

10. What did the New England militia find in the Pokanokets' village?

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