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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 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.

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

3. How many acres of land had to be deforested in a year for a town of two hundred homes?
(a) 65 acres.
(b) 25 acres.
(c) 200 acres.
(d) 75 acres.

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

5. What did Winslow designate Thursday, June 24, 1675?
(a) A day of celebration.
(b) A day of feasting.
(c) A day of fasting and humiliation.
(d) A day of prayer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Massasoit put at the bottom of his last Plymouth land deed?

2. What prophecy had Philip's pow-wows spoken about his death?

3. When the Sakonets wished to stay out of the conflict, where did Bradford ask them to go?

4. Who decided to escape the sorry settlement of Wessagusett and find his way to Plymouth?

5. Why was Arthur Peach hanged in 1638?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Standish kill Wituwamat and Pecksuot?

2. How was Standish's influence seen as the Pilgrims gathered for Sunday worship?

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

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

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

6. Why did the Plymouth's debilitating food shortages end in the fall of 1623?

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

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

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

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

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