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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is very likely that John Sassamon was adopted or indentured to the family of whom?
(a) William Hubbard.
(b) Richard Callicot.
(c) Increase Mather.
(d) John Alderman.

2. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?
(a) Preserve the Indian way of life.
(b) Eradicate the colonists.
(c) Purify their blood.
(d) Appease the gods.

3. What is the oldest municipality in New England and one of the oldest in the United States?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) Boston.
(c) Plymouth.
(d) Hope Bay.

4. On what date did the Narragansetts attack Providence, destroying it?
(a) December 10, 1675.
(b) November 14, 1676.
(c) March 29, 1676.
(d) September 12, 1568.

5. According to the author, the colonists thought the powwaws received their orders from whom?
(a) The Devil.
(b) Mohammad.
(c) God.
(d) Jesus.

6. What were hideous to the colonists and were assigned to the Indians, according to the author?
(a) Swamplands.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Meadows.

7. 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) "True but Brief Account of our Losses."
(c) "A Brief Account of New England."
(d) "A History of the Great War."

8. What does the author say represented filth and chaos to the Puritans in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?
(a) The letting of blood.
(b) Drinking alcohol.
(c) Eating pork.
(d) Eating chicken.

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

10. What is the name of an Algonquian Native American tribe from Rhode Island?
(a) The Narragansett tribe.
(b) The Mohegan tribe.
(c) The Nipmuc tribe.
(d) The Pocomtuc tribe.

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

12. What book did William Hubbard write at the order of the Colonial government, which paid him 50 pounds for it?
(a) An Account of the Great Swamp Battle.
(b) A History of the Northwest.
(c) A History of New England.
(d) A History of England.

13. In the Prologue, the author describes King Philip's War as being almost over in what year?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1675.

14. Passaconaway is said to have died in what year?
(a) 1721.
(b) 1679.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1685.

15. 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) Remain loyal to the Crown.
(c) Convert the Indians to Christianity.
(d) Maintain purity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by what means?

2. How many accounts of King Philip's War represent several types of writing aimed at different audiences, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?

3. Who is thought to have mentored John Sassamon?

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

5. Where was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?

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