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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. Who were the most feared warriors in the Northeast?

2. What was the chief concern of Weston's men?

3. Where were the Praying Indians relocated in Chapter 14?

4. What did the colonists at Wessagussett have to do in order to seek food?

5. Who succeeded Bradford as governor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 8, Pastor John Robinson writes about the ruffling course that the Pilgrims began with the Wessagusett raid. Argue whether Robinson's words proved to be prophetic or did not prove to be prophetic given the ultimate course of New England's history.

Essay Topic 2

The Pilgrims left England because of intolerant attitudes toward their religious beliefs. How did the Pilgrims have the same type of intolerant attitude toward the Strangers and others when they settled in the New World?

Essay Topic 3

Some say that the Pilgrims' passion and fervor that enabled them to survive those first grim years threatened to darken into a "mean-spirited fanaticism." Using examples from the book, argue whether you think the Pilgrims did or did not become mean-spirited fanatics.

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