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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What isolated town was attached by the Nipmucks on August 2, 1675?
(a) Newport.
(b) Taunton.
(c) Mount Hope.
(d) Brookfield.

2. What area had become Plymouth colony's one oasis of safety?
(a) Cape Cod.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Newport.
(d) Lancaster.

3. What man was one of the first New Englanders to embrace the wilderness?
(a) Moseley.
(b) Lathrop.
(c) Church.
(d) Talcott.

4. In December 1675, who became the leader of over 1,000 English soldiers?
(a) James Cudworth.
(b) Samuel Moseley.
(c) Josiah Winslow.
(d) Benjamin Church.

5. How many acres of land had to be deforested in a year for a town of two hundred homes?
(a) 65 acres.
(b) 25 acres.
(c) 75 acres.
(d) 200 acres.

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

7. Who decided to escape the sorry settlement of Wessagusett and find his way to Plymouth?
(a) John Hamden.
(b) Rogers.
(c) Phineas Pratt.
(d) Edward Johnson.

8. Who had to intercede in an altercation between Standish and fishermen on Cape Ann?
(a) Roger Conant.
(b) Roger Williams.
(c) John Cotton.
(d) Thomas Morton.

9. What English woman was taken captive in Lancaster?
(a) Mary Rowlandson.
(b) Penelope Winslow.
(c) Sarah Winslow.
(d) Alice Church.

10. When the Sakonets wished to stay out of the conflict, where did Bradford ask them to go?
(a) Lancaster.
(b) Sandwich.
(c) Swansea.
(d) Newport.

11. Who insisted that the Indians were the legal owners of their lands?
(a) Roger Conant.
(b) Roger Williams.
(c) William Bradford.
(d) Thomas Morton.

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

13. Who began equipping the Natives Americans with guns?
(a) Edward Winslow.
(b) Thomas Morton.
(c) Roger Williams.
(d) John Cotton.

14. Where were the Praying Indians relocated in Chapter 14?
(a) An internment camp near Boston.
(b) The Caribbean.
(c) Rehoboth.
(d) An internment camp on Deer Island.

15. Who was the sachem of Sakonnet?
(a) Weetamoo.
(b) Quinnapin.
(c) Awashonks.
(d) Sagamore Sam.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did England become after the death of King Charles?

3. Which group of Indians became the first in New England to disown Philip?

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

5. What did the English use as a form of currency, especially during the English civil war?

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