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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 Mary Rowlandson's family move to Lancaster, Massachusetts?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1612.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1653.

2. When was Benjamin Church born?
(a) 1639.
(b) 1689.
(c) 1616.
(d) 1701.

3. 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) Crusaders.
(b) Vigilantes.
(c) Conquistadors.
(d) Argonauts.

4. What book did Jill Lepore publish in 2002?
(a) Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents.
(b) Blindspot: A Novel.
(c) The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History.
(d) A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States.

5. The white population of New England totaled about how many people at the start of King Philip's War?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 65,000.
(d) 80,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cambridge University Press was granted letters patent by Henry VIII in what year?

2. Historians know little of what happened to King Philip's son except that he was sold into slavery and probably shipped where?

3. Over how many Native Americans had died during King Philip's War?

4. According to the author, the colonists took more than how many decades to rebuild what had been destroyed from King Philip's War?

5. When was Edwin Forrest born?

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. Who was Mary Rowlandson? What account did she write of King Philip's War?

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

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

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

6. What theories does the author describe for James Printer's captivity in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 5, Come Go Along with Us?

7. 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?

8. How does the author describe the symbolism of Metamora in regard to American identity in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 8, The Curse of Metamora?

9. What happened after James Printer was released from captivity, as described in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 5, Come Go Along with Us?

10. How does the author describe the aftermath of the war for the Indians in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan? What was the cause of the majority of deaths in the war?

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