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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Mary Rowlandson die?
(a) 1568.
(b) 1742.
(c) 1711.
(d) 1612.

3. The rock on the shore of Mount Hope Bay translates from Cherokee to say what in English?
(a) "Metacomet, Great Sachem".
(b) "Metacomet died here".
(c) "Metacomet, Child of God".
(d) "King Philip, killer of the White Man".

4. What tribe was Mary Rowlandson kidnapped by?
(a) The Cherokee tribe.
(b) The Apache tribe.
(c) The Nipmuck tribe.
(d) The Mohegan tribe.

5. Who was a Christian missionary, reformer, activist for the rights of American Indians, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government?
(a) Richard Callicot.
(b) Jeremiah Evarts.
(c) Increase Mather.
(d) John Alderman.

6. Where was William Charles Macready born?
(a) Philadelphia, PA.
(b) London, England.
(c) Bern, Switzerland.
(d) New York, NY.

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

8. Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags was written in what year?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1755.

9. When was Andrew Jackson born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1767.
(c) 1755.
(d) 1718.

10. Which tribe of Native Americans, in the 17th century, inhabited much of what is now Connecticut?
(a) The Cherokee people.
(b) The Ouachita people.
(c) The Pequot people.
(d) The Blackfoot people.

11. 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 Penobscot people.
(b) The Cherokee people.
(c) The Mohegan people.
(d) The Ouachita people.

12. 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) 1698.
(b) 1681.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1645.

13. According to the author, the colonists took more than how many decades to rebuild what had been destroyed from King Philip's War?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

14. The money that ransomed Mary Rowlandson was paid by whom?
(a)
(b) Joshua Tift.
(c) John Hoar.
(d) James Printer.

15. When did Mary Rowlandson's family move to Lancaster, Massachusetts?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1653.
(d) 1612.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Jill Lepore publish in 2002?

2. Jill Lepore earned a M.A. in history from what university?

3. On what date was Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags first performed?

4. Who was held captive by the Narragansetts, though he was hanged and quartered for treason?

5. Cambridge University Press was granted letters patent by Henry VIII in what year?

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