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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What region was the main site of conflict during King Philip's War?
(a) Eastern Canada.
(b) Northern Canada.
(c) Southern New England.
(d) Northern New England.

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

3. William Hubbard graduated Harvard in what year?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1677.
(c) 1650.
(d) 1601.

4. According to the author, accounts of King Philip's War that were apocalyptic, with some being sermons, were mostly printed where?
(a) London and Paris.
(b) Boston and Cambridge.
(c) London and New York.
(d) New York.

5. When was the book A Relation of the Troubles which Have Hapned in New-England by Reason of the Indians There from the Year 1614 to the Year 1675 published?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1612.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is very likely that John Sassamon was adopted or indentured to the family of whom?

2. What was the capital city of the Massachusetts Bay colony?

3. A prodigious learner, Hugo Grotius entered the University of Leiden when he was how old?

4. The colonists lost about how many men in the Great Swamp Fight?

5. One house, known as what, was burnt in King Philip's War but was rebuilt shortly thereafter near downtown Medfield, Massachusetts?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nathaniel Saltonstall describe the war in relation to the body, as discussed in Part Two, War, Chapter 3, Habitations of Cruelty?

2. How is Natural Law and Just War theory described in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

3. Describe the methods of news and communication within the colonies, as discussed in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed. How reliable were news sources?

4. When did King Philip's War begin, according to the author in the Prologue? What tribes were involved?

5. What did the colonists believe of the Indian powwaws? How did this shape their view of the war, as discussed in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

6. What was problematic for the Puritans in their plight to maintain a civil identity, as discussed in the Prologue?

7. How does the author describe the portrayal of Native Americans among the colonists in Part Two, War, Chapter 3, Habitations of Cruelty?

8. Who was accused of the murder of John Sassamon? How does the author describe Metacom's reaction in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?

9. What theories does the author describe for the murder of John Sassamon in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?

10. How does the author describe the English identity of the colonists in 1676 in the Prologue of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity?

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