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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. The majority of the dead Native Americans and many of the colonials during the war died as the result of what?
(a) Fire.
(b) Disease.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Suicide.

2. According to the author, the colonists took more than how many decades to rebuild what had been destroyed from King Philip's War?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. Over how many Native Americans had died during King Philip's War?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 700.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 3,000.

4. Who were Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain and Portugal in the 15th to 16th centuries?
(a) Argonauts.
(b) Conquistadors.
(c) Vigilantes.
(d) Crusaders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What was the name of King Philip's father?

3. Jill Lepore is a professor of American history at what university?

4. Where was Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags originally performed?

5. Over how many colonists died during King Philip's War?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the aftermath of the war described amongst the colonists in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan?

2. How is the relationship between the Indians and the colonists described in 1681 in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan?

3. Who was Joshue Tift? What experience did he have in captivity, as discussed in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 5, Come Go Along with Us?

4. What did critics say of the play Metamora? Who supported the play as propaganda for Indian Removal?

5. How is the Indian slave trade described in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise?

6. What does the author write regarding the legend of King Philip and our perception of him through the eyes of history?

7. What view did Bartholomew de Las Casas have regarding Indian slavery, as described in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise?

8. What does the author conclude regarding American identity in the Epilogue, The Rock?

9. How is Metacom's memorial described in the Epilogue, The Rock? When was it discovered?

10. How does the author describe the treatment of Philip's body in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan?

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