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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. What did some of the Wessagussett settlers trade for food?

3. Who succeeded Bradford as governor?

4. What did England become after the death of King Charles?

5. Which group of Indians became the first in New England to disown Philip?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the conditions at the colony of Wessagusett.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Some might say it is contradictory for people with strong religious beliefs to use violence to suit their purposes. Argue why you think it was or was not contradictory for the Pilgrims to use violence. Use specific examples from the book to support your argument.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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