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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the chief concern of Weston's men?

2. Who did Bradford blame for the difficulties the Pilgrims had paying off the colony's debt?

3. What diseases afflicted the Pokanokets in 1634?

4. What percentage of the land in New England was suitable for farming?

5. What did the colonists at Wessagussett have to do in order to seek food?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the Indians cut out of the New England real estate market?

2. Why did Philip want the English to draw first blood?

3. What did the New England militia find in the Pokanokets' village?

4. Why did Thomas Morton represent everything the Pilgrims had come to America to escape?

5. Why in the early 1640s did the Great Migration come to an end?

6. Describe the conditions at the colony of Wessagusett.

7. What evidence has been found that show the degree to which Western goods became of part of Indian life?

8. Toward the end of the war, what did the Englishmen view as a humane alternative to death and torture?

9. What became the focus of the children and grandchildren of the Pilgrims?

10. Who refused to forgive the Pilgrims for "the killing of those poor Indians."

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