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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 did Thomas Morton build instead of a wall?
(a) A fort.
(b) A maypole.
(c) A barn.
(d) A threshing floor.

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

3. What isolated town was attached by the Nipmucks on August 2, 1675?
(a) Brookfield.
(b) Newport.
(c) Mount Hope.
(d) Taunton.

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

5. How many tons of lumber were required to build a home in the 1650s?
(a) 14 tons.
(b) 12 tons.
(c) 1 ton.
(d) 6 tons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nation did Massasoit establish during the years after the Wessagussett raid?

2. What English woman was taken captive in Lancaster?

3. To whom did Alexander keep selling land?

4. What did the English use as a form of currency, especially during the English civil war?

5. Who believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe John Eliot's missionary work with the Indians.

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

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

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

7. What happened because the children of the Pilgrims chose to pursue economic prosperity at the expense of the Indians?

8. How did Standish kill Wituwamat and Pecksuot?

9. Why were the Massachusetts planning to attack Wessagusett and Plymouth?

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

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