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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. Why was Massasoit sick?
(a) Probably measles.
(b) Food poisoning.
(c) Someone had tried to poison him.
(d) Probably typhus.

2. Who was the settlement leader of Wessagussett in 1623?
(a) John Smythe.
(b) John Hamden.
(c) Phineas Pratt.
(d) John Sanders.

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

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

5. How far away was the nearest Indian village from Plymouth?
(a) 60 miles.
(b) 5 miles.
(c) 15 miles.
(d) 40 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What colony did Roger Williams found?

2. To whom did Alexander keep selling land?

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

4. What vandalism in 1675 caused Governor Winslow to ask for assistance from the Massachusetts Bay colony?

5. What did some Massachusetts authorities consider building when conditions became so desperate and winter was approaching?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Standish kill Wituwamat and Pecksuot?

2. Why did Philip want the English to draw first blood?

3. Describe the story that Church tells at the conclusion of his account of the war.

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

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

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

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

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

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