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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?
(a) The Narragansett tribe.
(b) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(c) The Nipmuc tribe.
(d) The Mohegan tribe.

2. Sassamon was a Christian minister in what Indian praying town?
(a) Quebec.
(b) Namasket.
(c) Wampapaquan.
(d) Nahauton.

3. Increase Mather was a Puritan minister who was involved with the administration of what college?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Harvard College.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Boston College.

4. When did Hugo Grotius die?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1672.
(c) 1645.
(d) 1677.

5. When was John Eliot born?
(a) 1595.
(b) 1612.
(c) 1604.
(d) 1641.

6. Medfield, Massachusetts, was first settled in what year?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1649.
(d) 1654.

7. Passaconaway is a name which translates to what in English?
(a) "Wolf of Night".
(b) "Child of the Bear".
(c) "The Great Bear".
(d) "The Great Antelope".

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

9. What word means "shaman" in the language of the Narragansett?
(a) Pagoda.
(b) Tipi.
(c) Powwaw.
(d) Wigwam.

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

11. John Sassamon was born circa what year?
(a) 1600.
(b) 1688.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1648.

12. The first English settlers arrived in what year, when Sassamon's parents may have welcomed them?
(a) 1664.
(b) 1610.
(c) 1630.
(d) 1622.

13. King Philip's War began in June of what year?
(a) 1675.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1648.
(d) 1639.

14. One house, known as what, was burnt in King Philip's War but was rebuilt shortly thereafter near downtown Medfield, Massachusetts?
(a) The Peak House.
(b) The Boston House.
(c) The Medfield Mansion.
(d) The Orchard House.

15. Who served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680?
(a) William Hubbard.
(b) Richard Callicot.
(c) Josiah Winslow.
(d) John Alderman.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England published?

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?

3. What does the author say represented filth and chaos to the Puritans in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

4. What name refers to the mostly Puritan and Pilgrim immigrants from Great Britain who settled New England starting around 1630?

5. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by what means?

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