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

2. Who succeeded Bradford as governor?
(a) Edward Winslow.
(b) John Brown.
(c) Thomas Prence.
(d) Roger Williams.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What friendly tribe had their wigwams burned by Moseley?

2. To what did Massasoit's sons change their names?

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

4. What son of Massasoit became Pokanokets' new leader?

5. Who was the sachem of Sakonnet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who refused to forgive the Pilgrims for "the killing of those poor Indians."

2. Toward the end of the war, what did the Englishmen view as a humane alternative to death and torture?

3. Describe John Eliot's missionary work with the Indians.

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

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

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

7. What evidence has been found that show the degree to which Western goods became of part of Indian life?

8. How did Standish kill Wituwamat and Pecksuot?

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

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

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