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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was Arthur Peach hanged in 1638?
(a) Because he killed an Indian.
(b) Because he killed Standish.
(c) Because he attacked Bradford.
(d) Because he killed his brother.

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

4. What friendly tribe had their wigwams burned by Moseley?
(a) Pokanoket.
(b) Narragansett.
(c) Praying Indians.
(d) Penacooks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. Who was the only Englishman in Sakonnet?
(a) Thomas Moseley.
(b) John Leverett.
(c) Benjamin Church.
(d) Francis Cook.

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

14. Who had pledged his country's support to Philip in the fall?
(a) A Scotsman.
(b) A German.
(c) A Frenchman.
(d) A Canadian.

15. Who was he leader of the Connecticut forces?
(a) Josiah Winslow.
(b) Captain Thomas Lathrop.
(c) Major John Talcott.
(d) Samuel Moseley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who succeeded Bradford as governor?

2. What was the name of the settlement north of Wessagusett in modern Braintree?

3. What did some Massachusetts authorities consider building when conditions became so desperate and winter was approaching?

4. Who became pastor at Plymouth in 1667?

5. Who did Bradford learn died in 1625?

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