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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which colony had relied on friendly Indians from the very start of the conflict?
(a) Maine.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) Connecticut.

2. What was a shocking outrage to the Puritans at Kickemuit?
(a) The Indians captured some white women.
(b) The Indians had sent their dogs into a church.
(c) The Indians had raped a white woman.
(d) The Indians had torn a Bible.

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

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

5. What nation did Massasoit establish during the years after the Wessagussett raid?
(a) Wampanoag.
(b) Massachusett.
(c) Cummaquid.
(d) Wessagussett.

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

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

8. To whom did Alexander keep selling land?
(a) Massachusetts Bay Colony.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Maine.
(d) Rhode Islanders.

9. In Chapter 15, where does Church move his wife and son?
(a) Trenton.
(b) Portsmouth.
(c) Rehoboth.
(d) Boston.

10. What did the colonists at Wessagussett have to do in order to seek food?
(a) Trade with the Pilgrims.
(b) Leave the safety of their fortress.
(c) Use some of their precious ammunition.
(d) Trade with the Indians.

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

12. What percentage of the land in New England was suitable for farming?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 5 percent.
(c) 20 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

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

14. What vandalism in 1675 caused Governor Winslow to ask for assistance from the Massachusetts Bay colony?
(a) Boats were damaged.
(b) Crops were destroyed.
(c) Burning of two houses.
(d) The church was destroyed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the only Englishman in Sakonnet?

2. Who became pastor at Plymouth in 1667?

3. What did Winslow designate Thursday, June 24, 1675?

4. What area had become Plymouth colony's one oasis of safety?

5. Who began equipping the Natives Americans with guns?

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