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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, where did Miles Standish travel to pick up some corn?

2. Why did many Indians die in the summer of 1623?

3. Who had to intercede in an altercation between Standish and fishermen on Cape Ann?

4. Who began equipping the Natives Americans with guns?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did Standish kill Wituwamat and Pecksuot?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why there was a controversy between some Indians and some Englishmen regarding the murder and the punishment of Arthur Peach and his cohorts. What motives were behind the controversy?

Essay Topic 2

Although King Philip's War became a racial war, it was also caused by greed. Explain how greed led Philip and the English into the conflict and what gain the parties expected to obtain from the conflict.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the consequences of the war with Philip and why the victory might be considered a Pyrrhic victory for the English.

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