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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The rock on the shore of Mount Hope Bay was etched before what year, according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1919.

2. How many weeks of captivity did Mary Rowlandson experience before being released on ransom?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 11.

3. What was Andrew Jackson nicknamed because of his toughness and aggressive personality?
(a) "Black Stone".
(b) "Big Tree".
(c) "Old Hickory".
(d) "Stonewall".

4. 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.

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

6. Jill Lepore is a contributing writer for what publication?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Art in America.
(c) Writer's Weekly.
(d) National Educational Review.

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

8. What book did Jill Lepore publish in 2002?
(a) Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents.
(b) Blindspot: A Novel.
(c) A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States.
(d) The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History.

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

10. What was the name of the Indian who shot King Philip?
(a) Increase Mather.
(b) Captain Josiah Standish.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) Benjamin Church.

11. Over how many Native Americans had died during King Philip's War?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 700.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 3,000.

12. On what date was Mary Rowlandson kidnapped?
(a) February 3, 1677.
(b) March 13, 1675.
(c) February 10, 1676.
(d) September 1, 1677.

13. When was the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1449.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1462.

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

15. Who originated the Narragansett cultural revival?
(a) King Alexander.
(b) Wamsutta.
(c) Massasoit.
(d) Princess Red Wing.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Andrew Jackson die?

2. When does the author describe the Narragansett cultural revival originating in the Epilogue?

3. The rock on the shore of Mount Hope Bay translates from Cherokee to say what in English?

4. The rock on the shore of Mount Hope Bay was etched after the creation of Cherokee syllabary in what year?

5. King Philip was tracked down by colony-allied Native Americans led by Captain Benjamin Church and who of the Plymouth Colony militia?

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