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

2. 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) Remain loyal to the Crown.
(d) Convert the Indians to Christianity.

3. 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."

4. In the Great Swamp Fight, it is believed that the militia killed about how many Narragansetts?
(a) 100.
(b) 200.
(c) 300.
(d) 56.

5. When did Nathaniel Saltonstall die?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1725.
(c) 1707.
(d) 1718.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians?

2. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?

3. Where was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?

4. What is a Protestant theological system and an approach to the Christian life and was advanced by several theologians such as Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Huldrych Zwingli?

5. When was William Hubbard born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What motivations and ethics are described of the Indian tribes for the war in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

2. How does the author describe the Puritans' impression of America and Native Americans upon arriving in Part Two, War, Chapter 3, Habitations of Cruelty?

3. What reasons did the Narragansetts give for their attack on Providence, as described in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

4. What does the author say regarding literacy as a tool in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?

5. How does the author describe the evidence surrounding John Sassamon's death in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?

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

7. How did the actions of the English impact the Native American people, according to the author in the Prologue?

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 did the author write of the changing Puritan population and identity in the 1630s and 1640s in the Prologue?

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

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