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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What prophecy had Philip's pow-wows spoken about his death?
(a) He would die at the hands of an Englishman.
(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 a white general.

3. Who became sachem after Alexander died?
(a) Tuspaquin.
(b) Hobbamock.
(c) Philip.
(d) Annawon.

4. What did some of the Wessagussett settlers trade for food?
(a) Muskets.
(b) Ammunition.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Cooking pots.

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

6. What was the chief concern of Weston's men?
(a) Fear of the Indians.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Building a fort.
(d) Catching typhus.

7. What was the name of the settlement north of Wessagusett in modern Braintree?
(a) Merrymount.
(b) New London.
(c) Northfield.
(d) Lancaster.

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

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

10. To what did Massasoit's sons change their names?
(a) Miles and Edward.
(b) Alexander and Philip.
(c) John and William.
(d) David and Thomas.

11. Who believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian?
(a) Captain Thomas Lathrop.
(b) Richard Beers.
(c) Captain Samuel Moseley.
(d) Major Simon Willard.

12. What group did Massasoit lead in his later years?
(a) Naraganassett.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Quabaugs.
(d) Pequot.

13. What ominous event occurred the night of June 26, 1675.
(a) A meteor shower.
(b) An large piece of an asteroid fell on the ground.
(c) Total eclipse of the moon.
(d) A midnight raid.

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

15. Why did the Great Migration come to an end in the early 1640s?
(a) There was too great a threat of Indian attacks.
(b) The colonies had become too religious for many people.
(c) The land was becoming too settled.
(d) English civil war.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, where does Church move his wife and son?

2. What did the colonists at Wessagussett have to do in order to seek food?

3. What friendly tribe had their wigwams burned by Moseley?

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

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

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