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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 ominous event occurred the night of June 26, 1675.
(a) A midnight raid.
(b) An large piece of an asteroid fell on the ground.
(c) A meteor shower.
(d) Total eclipse of the moon.

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

3. What became the economic center of the region after 1660?
(a) Plymouth.
(b) Boston.
(c) Taunton.
(d) Providence.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Bradford learn died in 1625?

2. What ability had the Pilgrims temporarily ruined after the Wessagusett raid?

3. What type of a new American came into being after King Philip's War?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Standish kill Wituwamat and Pecksuot?

2. What process did Plymouth use to remove potentially dangerous Native men and boys?

3. What happened to the Narragansett fort?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Awashonks not want to drink the rum that Church brought?

10. Why did the New Englanders decide to attack the Narragansetts?

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