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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" published?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1734.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1677.
2. Why was Massasoit sick?
(a) Probably measles.
(b) Probably typhus.
(c) Someone had tried to poison him.
(d) Food poisoning.
3. What son of Massasoit became Pokanokets' new leader?
(a) Canonicus.
(b) Uncas.
(c) Wamsutta.
(d) Miontonimo.
4. What happened to Philip's nine-year-old son?
(a) Given to the Sakonnets.
(b) Went to live in Swansea.
(c) Went to live with the Narragansetts.
(d) Sold into slavery.
5. How many acres of land had to be deforested in a year for a town of two hundred homes?
(a) 25 acres.
(b) 200 acres.
(c) 65 acres.
(d) 75 acres.
6. Who was he leader of the Connecticut forces?
(a) Major John Talcott.
(b) Josiah Winslow.
(c) Samuel Moseley.
(d) Captain Thomas Lathrop.
7. Who does Church meet with at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) Quinnapin.
(b) Annawon.
(c) Weetamoo.
(d) Awashonks.
8. In Chapter 15, where does Church move his wife and son?
(a) Rehoboth.
(b) Trenton.
(c) Boston.
(d) Portsmouth.
9. Who did Bradford blame for the difficulties the Pilgrims had paying off the colony's debt?
(a) Roger Williams.
(b) Weston.
(c) Roger Conant.
(d) Isaac Allerton.
10. What did some of the Wessagussett settlers trade for food?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Muskets.
(c) Cooking pots.
(d) Ammunition.
11. Who decided to escape the sorry settlement of Wessagusett and find his way to Plymouth?
(a) Phineas Pratt.
(b) Edward Johnson.
(c) Rogers.
(d) John Hamden.
12. Toward the end of the war, what did the New Englanders do with Indian captives?
(a) Sold them into slavery.
(b) Sent them to Virginia.
(c) Killed them.
(d) Put them on reservations.
13. How close to Wessagussett colony was an Indian settlement?
(a) 40 miles away.
(b) 15 miles away.
(c) Right beside the colony.
(d) 25 miles away.
14. 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 colonies had become too religious for many people.
(d) The land was becoming too settled.
15. What did Massasoit put at the bottom of his last Plymouth land deed?
(a) Blood from his finger.
(b) A pictogram.
(c) An "X" for his signature.
(d) His thumbprint.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Winslow designate Thursday, June 24, 1675?
2. What type of a new American came into being after King Philip's War?
3. Why was Arthur Peach hanged in 1638?
4. What was a shocking outrage to the Puritans at Kickemuit?
5. What nation did Massasoit establish during the years after the Wessagussett raid?
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