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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 diseases afflicted the Pokanokets in 1634?
(a) Smallpox and influenza.
(b) Measles and mumps.
(c) Typhus and measles.
(d) Typhus and influenza.

2. Who was he leader of the Connecticut forces?
(a) Samuel Moseley.
(b) Major John Talcott.
(c) Josiah Winslow.
(d) Captain Thomas Lathrop.

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

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

5. Who was the only Englishman in Sakonnet?
(a) Benjamin Church.
(b) Francis Cook.
(c) Thomas Moseley.
(d) John Leverett.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How far away was the nearest Indian village from Plymouth?

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

4. Who became pastor at Plymouth in 1667?

5. What area had become Plymouth colony's one oasis of safety?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What marvelous change came upon Bradford as his health declined in May of 1657?

4. What did Roger Williams do when the Indians attacked Providence?

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

6. How did Philip resort to deception to create an alliance with the Mohawks?

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

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

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

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

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