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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four, Memory, Chapter 8, The Curse of Metamora.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is credited with the founding of Medfield, Massachusetts?
(a) William Hubbard.
(b) Richard Callicot.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) Rev. Ralph Wheelock.

2. What standard picture of New England during the war, including landscapes of ash, farms destroyed, and bodies without heads did Nathaniel Saltonstall write?
(a) "True but Brief Account of our Losses."
(b) "An Account of King Philip's War."
(c) "A Brief Account of New England."
(d) "A History of the Great War."

3. What was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III and his successor, Edward I?
(a) Hanged, drawn and quartered.
(b) Execution by Fire Marshal.
(c) Execution by guillotine.
(d) Burning at the stake.

4. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?
(a) Namasket.
(b) Nahauton.
(c) Metacom.
(d) Wampapaquan.

5. Medfield, Massachusetts, was first settled in what year?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1654.
(d) 1649.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what event did King Philip's head make an appearance in Plymouth following the war?

2. Passaconaway was believed to have been born between 1550 and when?

3. The majority of the dead Native Americans and many of the colonials during the war died as the result of what?

4. When was William Charles Macready born?

5. On what date was Metacomet's wife captured by enemy forces?

(see the answer key)

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