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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the English use as a form of currency, especially during the English civil war?
(a) Letters of credit.
(b) The Indians' shell beads.
(c) Livestock and crops.
(d) Gold coins.

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

3. Why was Massasoit sick?
(a) Someone had tried to poison him.
(b) Food poisoning.
(c) Probably measles.
(d) Probably typhus.

4. What did Massasoit put at the bottom of his last Plymouth land deed?
(a) A pictogram.
(b) Blood from his finger.
(c) An "X" for his signature.
(d) His thumbprint.

5. What type of a new American came into being after King Philip's War?
(a) Statesman.
(b) Politician.
(c) Frontiersman.
(d) Pioneer.

6. Who did Bradford blame for the difficulties the Pilgrims had paying off the colony's debt?
(a) Weston.
(b) Roger Williams.
(c) Roger Conant.
(d) Isaac Allerton.

7. In Chapter 9, where did Miles Standish travel to pick up some corn?
(a) Mattapoisett.
(b) Sowams.
(c) Patuxet.
(d) Manomet.

8. What son of Massasoit became Pokanokets' new leader?
(a) Miontonimo.
(b) Canonicus.
(c) Uncas.
(d) Wamsutta.

9. Toward the end of the war, what did the New Englanders do with Indian captives?
(a) Killed them.
(b) Sent them to Virginia.
(c) Put them on reservations.
(d) Sold them into slavery.

10. What prophecy had Philip's pow-wows spoken about his death?
(a) He would die at the hands of a white general.
(b) He would die at the hands of a white woman.
(c) He would not die at the hands of an Englishman.
(d) He would die at the hands of an Englishman.

11. What did England become after the death of King Charles?
(a) A Catholic state.
(b) A Puritan state.
(c) An autocracy.
(d) A oligarchy.

12. What did Winslow designate Thursday, June 24, 1675?
(a) A day of prayer.
(b) A day of feasting.
(c) A day of fasting and humiliation.
(d) A day of celebration.

13. Why did many Indians die in the summer of 1623?
(a) Because of a measles epidemic.
(b) Because of war.
(c) They were not able to plant crops.
(d) Because of disease.

14. Who does Church meet with at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) Annawon.
(b) Awashonks.
(c) Weetamoo.
(d) Quinnapin.

15. What ability had the Pilgrims temporarily ruined after the Wessagusett raid?
(a) Their relationship with Canacum.
(b) Their relationship with Massasoit.
(c) Their relationship with Iyanough.
(d) Ability to trade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What isolated town was attached by the Nipmucks on August 2, 1675?

2. Who began equipping the Natives Americans with guns?

3. How many acres of land had to be deforested in a year for a town of two hundred homes?

4. Who succeeded Bradford as governor?

5. What man was one of the first New Englanders to embrace the wilderness?

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