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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III and his successor, Edward I?
(a) Execution by guillotine.
(b) Hanged, drawn and quartered.
(c) Burning at the stake.
(d) Execution by Fire Marshal.

2. What was the name of the Indian who shot King Philip?
(a) Increase Mather.
(b) Benjamin Church.
(c) Captain Josiah Standish.
(d) John Alderman.

3. In what year, five years after King Philip's War ended, had many of the colonists resolved to be less violent and rash towards the Indians?
(a) 1645.
(b) 1681.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1775.

4. What was the name of King Philip's older brother, known by the English as King Alexander?
(a) Wamsutta.
(b) Paiute.
(c) Wyandotte.
(d) Massasoit.

5. Where were Metacomet's wife and son sent after they had been captured?
(a) Plymoth.
(b) Boston.
(c) Canada.
(d) New York.

6. Over how many colonists died during King Philip's War?
(a) 200.
(b) 800.
(c) 600.
(d) 500.

7. Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags was written in what year?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1755.

8. What was Andrew Jackson nicknamed because of his toughness and aggressive personality?
(a) "Big Tree".
(b) "Old Hickory".
(c) "Stonewall".
(d) "Black Stone".

9. When was Benjamin Church born?
(a) 1616.
(b) 1689.
(c) 1639.
(d) 1701.

10. Where was Mary Rowlandson born?
(a) England.
(b) New York, NY.
(c) Boston, MA.
(d) Plymouth.

11. Which tribe of Native Americans, in the 17th century, inhabited much of what is now Connecticut?
(a) The Cherokee people.
(b) The Blackfoot people.
(c) The Pequot people.
(d) The Ouachita people.

12. When was Andrew Jackson born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1755.
(c) 1767.
(d) 1718.

13. Where was Bartholomew de Las Casas born?
(a) Seville.
(b) London.
(c) Greece.
(d) France.

14. When did Bartholomew de Las Casas die?
(a) 1566.
(b) 1598.
(c) 1548.
(d) 1602.

15. When was the Indian Removal Act signed into law?
(a) May 28, 1830.
(b) September 1, 1825.
(c) March 12, 1865.
(d) May 2, 1818.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tribe was Mary Rowlandson kidnapped by?

2. Who was the husband of Mary Rowlandson?

3. Mary Rowlandson wrote from a fully Christian perspective and believed that being held captive was a special brand of affliction that served to increase what?

4. When did Edwin Forrest die?

5. Benjamin Church is considered the father of what?

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