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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many ships arrived in New England in 1630?
(a) 17.
(b) 12.
(c) 25.
(d) 3.

4. When the Sakonets wished to stay out of the conflict, where did Bradford ask them to go?
(a) Sandwich.
(b) Newport.
(c) Swansea.
(d) Lancaster.

5. In December 1675, who became the leader of over 1,000 English soldiers?
(a) Josiah Winslow.
(b) Benjamin Church.
(c) Samuel Moseley.
(d) James Cudworth.

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

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

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

9. What did Bradford study the last days of his life?
(a) Latin.
(b) The Massachusetts language.
(c) Greek.
(d) Hebrew.

10. What did some Massachusetts authorities consider building when conditions became so desperate and winter was approaching?
(a) A palisade wall.
(b) Cannon platforms.
(c) Barracks.
(d) A fort.

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

12. Who did Bradford learn died in 1625?
(a) Weston.
(b) Roger Williams.
(c) Cushman.
(d) John Robinson.

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

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

15. What did the English use as a form of currency, especially during the English civil war?
(a) Livestock and crops.
(b) The Indians' shell beads.
(c) Gold coins.
(d) Letters of credit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What diseases afflicted the Pokanokets in 1634?

2. Why was Arthur Peach hanged in 1638?

3. What did some of the Wessagussett settlers trade for food?

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

5. Who insisted that the Indians were the legal owners of their lands?

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