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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is defined as an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Culture.
(c) Savagery.
(d) Civilization.

2. John Sassamon's family died during the smallpox epidemic of what year?
(a) 1664.
(b) 1652.
(c) 1633.
(d) 1612.

3. When did the Pequot War begin?
(a) 1654.
(b) 1634.
(c) 1615.
(d) 1662.

4. What does "bashaba" mean?
(a) White man.
(b) Chief of chiefs.
(c) Enemy.
(d) Child of the shaman.

5. Sassamon was a Christian minister in what Indian praying town?
(a) Quebec.
(b) Wampapaquan.
(c) Nahauton.
(d) Namasket.

6. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?
(a) Wampapaquan.
(b) Nahauton.
(c) Metacom.
(d) Namasket.

7. The three men who were accused as the killers of Sassamon were Mattashunannamo, Tobias, and his son, who was named what?
(a) Wampapaquan.
(b) Patuckson.
(c) Nahauton.
(d) Metacom.

8. Increase Mather was a Puritan minister who was involved with the administration of what college?
(a) Boston College.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Harvard College.
(d) Princeton University.

9. The first English settlers arrived in what year, when Sassamon's parents may have welcomed them?
(a) 1664.
(b) 1630.
(c) 1622.
(d) 1610.

10. One house, known as what, was burnt in King Philip's War but was rebuilt shortly thereafter near downtown Medfield, Massachusetts?
(a) The Boston House.
(b) The Orchard House.
(c) The Peak House.
(d) The Medfield Mansion.

11. When was William Hubbard born?
(a) 1621.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1677.

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

13. In 1600, the population of the Wampanoag numbered approximately how many members?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 12,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 5,000.

14. When was Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians published?
(a) 1658.
(b) 1677.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1688.

15. What was the capital city of the Massachusetts Bay colony?
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Boston.
(d) Plymouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?

2. On what date did the Narragansetts attack Providence, destroying it?

3. When was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?

4. What region was the main site of conflict during King Philip's War?

5. 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?

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