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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom did Captain Church give a hand of the deceased King Philip?
(a) Richard Callicot.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) John Sassamon.
(d) William Hubbard.

2. What was the name of King Philip's older brother, known by the English as King Alexander?
(a) Massasoit.
(b) Wamsutta.
(c) Wyandotte.
(d) Paiute.

3. Who wrote the play Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags?
(a) Richard Callicot.
(b) John Augustus Stone.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) Increase Mather.

4. When did William Charles Macready die?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1793.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1755.

5. On what date was Metacomet's wife captured by enemy forces?
(a) August 2, 1676.
(b) November 3, 1676.
(c) August 10, 1678.
(d) September 12, 1677.

6. When was William Charles Macready born?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1755.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1873.

7. Mary Rowlandson was the fifth of how many children?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

8. Mohegan translates to what in English?
(a) "People of the bear".
(b) "People of the wolf".
(c) "People of the Swamp".
(d) "Children of the Star".

9. What refers to the name of a geographical feature in an official or well-established language occurring in that area where the feature is located?
(a) Endonym.
(b) Exonym.
(c) Synonym.
(d) Catalism.

10. Historians know little of what happened to King Philip's son except that he was sold into slavery and probably shipped where?
(a) To the West Indes.
(b) To East Asia.
(c) To South Africa.
(d) To England.

11. Jill Lepore earned a B.A. in English at what university?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Tufts University.
(c) The University of Michigan.
(d) Yale University.

12. Jill Lepore is a professor of American history at what university?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Princeton University.

13. When was The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity published?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1968.

14. In what year, five years after King Philip's War ended, had many of the colonists resolved to be less violent and rash towards the Indians?
(a) 1681.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1645.

15. The rock on the shore of Mount Hope Bay may have been etched by what tribe of Indians who visited New England to work out land claims and made a pilgrimage to Mount Hope?
(a) The Mohegan people.
(b) The Penobscot people.
(c) The Ouachita people.
(d) The Cherokee people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tribe was Mary Rowlandson kidnapped by?

2. Which President of the United States was Andrew Jackson?

3. When was Edwin Forrest born?

4. What was the name of King Philip's father?

5. The Mahican people were historically located in what region?

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