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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. When did Andrew Jackson die?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1755.
(d) 1865.

2. Who was a Christian missionary, reformer, activist for the rights of American Indians, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government?
(a) Jeremiah Evarts.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) Richard Callicot.

3. Mary Rowlandson was the fifth of how many children?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

4. When did Mary Rowlandson die?
(a) 1568.
(b) 1742.
(c) 1711.
(d) 1612.

5. Jill Lepore's book, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, was a finalist for what award?
(a) The Pulitzer Prize in Literature.
(b) The Pulitzer Prize in History.
(c) The Bancroft Prize in History.
(d) The Bancroft Prize in Literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the play Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags?

2. 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?

3. What book did Jill Lepore publish in 2010?

4. Where was Edwin Forrest born?

5. Which tribe of Native Americans, in the 17th century, inhabited much of what is now Connecticut?

Short Essay Questions

1. What debate surrounded the fate of Metacom's son, as described in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise?

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

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

4. How does the author describe cultural revivals among the Indians in Epilogue, The Rock?

5. How does the author describe Mary Rowlandson's perspective of identity in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 5, Come Go Along with Us?

6. Why was King Philip's War resurrected during the American Revolution, as discussed in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan?

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

8. How was Edwin Forrest's portrayal of Metamora received in England? What does the author write of this in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 8, The Curse of Metamora?

9. When were Metacom's wife and child captured? Where does the author say they were taken in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise?

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

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