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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 diseases afflicted the Pokanokets in 1634?
(a) Measles and mumps.
(b) Typhus and measles.
(c) Typhus and influenza.
(d) Smallpox and influenza.

2. Who did Bradford learn died in 1625?
(a) John Robinson.
(b) Weston.
(c) Roger Williams.
(d) Cushman.

3. How close to Wessagussett colony was an Indian settlement?
(a) 15 miles away.
(b) Right beside the colony.
(c) 40 miles away.
(d) 25 miles away.

4. In Chapter 15, where does Church move his wife and son?
(a) Rehoboth.
(b) Trenton.
(c) Boston.
(d) Portsmouth.

5. Who became the first English mayor of Manhattan?
(a) Benjamin Church.
(b) Francis Cook.
(c) John Leverett.
(d) Thomas Willett.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a shocking outrage to the Puritans at Kickemuit?

2. What percentage of the land in New England was suitable for farming?

3. What became the economic center of the region after 1660?

4. Why did the Great Migration come to an end in the early 1640s?

5. Who began equipping the Natives Americans with guns?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Plymouth's debilitating food shortages end in the fall of 1623?

2. How was Standish's influence seen as the Pilgrims gathered for Sunday worship?

3. Why did Philip want the English to draw first blood?

4. How were the Indians cut out of the New England real estate market?

5. Why did Thomas Morton represent everything the Pilgrims had come to America to escape?

6. How did Standish kill Wituwamat and Pecksuot?

7. Who refused to forgive the Pilgrims for "the killing of those poor Indians."

8. Describe the story that Church tells at the conclusion of his account of the war.

9. Toward the end of the war, what did the Englishmen view as a humane alternative to death and torture?

10. What did Roger Williams do when the Indians attacked Providence?

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