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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) Livestock and crops.
(b) Gold coins.
(c) Letters of credit.
(d) The Indians' shell beads.

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

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

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

5. Who became pastor at Plymouth in 1667?
(a) Roger Williams.
(b) John Cotton.
(c) William Bradford.
(d) John Robinson.

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

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

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

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

10. Who succeeded Bradford as governor?
(a) Edward Winslow.
(b) Thomas Prence.
(c) John Brown.
(d) Roger Williams.

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

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

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

14. Who was the settlement leader of Wessagussett in 1623?
(a) John Smythe.
(b) John Hamden.
(c) John Sanders.
(d) Phineas Pratt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bradford study the last days of his life?

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

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

4. Which colony had relied on friendly Indians from the very start of the conflict?

5. Why was Arthur Peach hanged in 1638?

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