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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the Praying Indians relocated in Chapter 14?

2. In Chapter 9, where did Miles Standish travel to pick up some corn?

3. Who does Church meet with at the beginning of Chapter 16?

4. What vandalism in 1675 caused Governor Winslow to ask for assistance from the Massachusetts Bay colony?

5. Why did many Indians die in the summer of 1623?

Short Essay Questions

1. What became the focus of the children and grandchildren of the Pilgrims?

2. What marvelous change came upon Bradford as his health declined in May of 1657?

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

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

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

6. Why were the Massachusetts planning to attack Wessagusett and Plymouth?

7. How did Philip resort to deception to create an alliance with the Mohawks?

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

9. What did the New England militia find in the Pokanokets' village?

10. Describe John Eliot's missionary work with the Indians.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the Plymouth colony and the Massachusetts Bay colony, and explain why or why not the Pilgrims should have settled at Boston rather than Plymouth.

Essay Topic 2

The Pilgrims believed that God played a role in their destiny, but they also did not hesitate to do whatever needed to be done to take charge of their own destiny. Explain incidents that demonstrate how the Pilgrims took charge of their own destiny.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 3, a Frenchmen told his Indian captors that "God was angry with them for their wickedness, and would destroy them and give their country to another people." Argue whether King Philip's war was or was not God's vengeance on the Indians.

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