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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many houses in Medfield, Massachusetts, were destroyed by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675?
(a) 32.
(b) 25.
(c) 27.
(d) 40.

2. According to the author, many colonists found it hard to write about the war, such as what individual who felt totally devastated by his experience of the burning of Springfield?
(a) John Pynchon.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) Richard Callicot.
(d) William Hubbard.

3. In 1600 the Wampanoag lived primarily in what two states?
(a) New York and Pennsylvania.
(b) Kentucky and Delaware.
(c) New Jersey and New York.
(d) Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

4. When was Metacomet born?
(a) 1639.
(b) 1675.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1648.

5. What were the villages of Christian Indians called?
(a) White towns.
(b) Praying towns.
(c) Red towns.
(d) Bible towns.

6. The most standard narratives of King Philip's War were published where, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) London.
(b) Boston.
(c) Dublin.
(d) New York.

7. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?
(a) Totem.
(b) Tipi.
(c) Shaman.
(d) Wigwam.

8. Nathaniel Saltonstall was selected as a judge for what specific court responsible for the trial and sentence of people for the crime of witchcraft in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials?
(a) Court of Salem, Massachusetts.
(b) Court of Oyer and Terminer.
(c) Court of Franklin and Boston.
(d) Court of Anderson and Overlay.

9. Where was William Hubbard born?
(a) England.
(b) New York, NY.
(c) Philadelphia, PA.
(d) New Brunswick, Canada.

10. What standard picture of New England during the war, including landscapes of ash, farms destroyed, and bodies without heads did Nathaniel Saltonstall write?
(a) "An Account of King Philip's War."
(b) "A Brief Account of New England."
(c) "A History of the Great War."
(d) "True but Brief Account of our Losses."

11. According to the author in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?, due to their great losses, many New England colonists thought God was punishing them for their failure to do what?
(a) Kill all of the Indians.
(b) Maintain purity.
(c) Convert the Indians to Christianity.
(d) Remain loyal to the Crown.

12. When was A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England published?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1612.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1642.

13. When the Puritans came to America, the Algonquians were thought to be what?
(a) Civilized.
(b) Angels.
(c) Literate.
(d) Nomads.

14. Increase Mather was the youngest of how many brothers?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

15. Passaconaway was a powerful medicine man and sachem of what tribe?
(a) The Mohegan tribe.
(b) The Mohawk tribe.
(c) The Cherokee tribe.
(d) The Penacook tribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?

2. 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?

3. The Eighty Years' War took place when?

4. When was Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians published?

5. According to the author, the English were particularly brutal when they attacked the Narragansetts' Great Swamp on what date?

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