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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue, The Rock.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The white population of New England totaled about how many men of military age at the start of King Philip's War?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 16,000.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 25,000.

2. Who wrote the play Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags?
(a) Increase Mather.
(b) Richard Callicot.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) John Augustus Stone.

3. How old was Metacomet's son when he was kidnapped?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 14.

4. What is a Protestant theological system and an approach to the Christian life and was advanced by several theologians such as Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Huldrych Zwingli?
(a) Calvinism.
(b) Ordinism.
(c) Puritanism.
(d) Helitism.

5. The colonists considered news distributed by whom to be the least reliable, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) Cambridge newspapers.
(b) Boston newspapers.
(c) The Indians.
(d) The English.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was Mary Rowlandson ransomed?

2. Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving on November 3 of what year?

3. What was the name of King Philip's older brother, known by the English as King Alexander?

4. What was the name of the Algonquian language?

5. What is the oldest municipality in New England and one of the oldest in the United States?

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