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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Blackfoot people.
(d) The Pequot people.

2. Where was Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags originally performed?
(a) Carnegie Hall in New York City.
(b) The Metropolitan Playhouse in New York City.
(c) The Boston Globe Theater.
(d) The Park Theater in New York City.

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

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

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

6. 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 Cherokee people.
(c) The Penobscot people.
(d) The Ouachita people.

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

8. Mary Rowlandson wrote from a fully Christian perspective and believed that being held captive was a special brand of affliction that served to increase what?
(a) Piety.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Strength.
(d) Retribution.

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

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

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

12. Who were Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain and Portugal in the 15th to 16th centuries?
(a) Argonauts.
(b) Conquistadors.
(c) Crusaders.
(d) Vigilantes.

13. How old was Metacomet's son when he was kidnapped?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

14. What book did Jill Lepore publish in 2010?
(a) Blindspot: A Novel.
(b) The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History.
(c) A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States.
(d) Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents.

15. 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) 1645.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1681.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was a rock on the shore of Mount Hope Bay discovered with Cherokee writing on it, according to the author in the Epilogue?

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

3. To whom did Captain Church give a hand of the deceased King Philip?

4. Jill Lepore earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from what university?

5. The Mohawk people are the most easterly tribe of what confederation?

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