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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mohawk people are the most easterly tribe of what confederation?
(a) The Cherokee confederation.
(b) The Mohave confederation.
(c) The Ouachita confederation.
(d) The Iroquois confederation.

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

3. Cambridge University Press was granted letters patent by Henry VIII in what year?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1534.
(c) 1515.
(d) 1596.

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

5. 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) Crusaders.
(c) Vigilantes.
(d) Conquistadors.

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

7. When was Mary Rowlandson born?
(a) 1568.
(b) 1637.
(c) 1648.
(d) 1642.

8. The white population of New England totaled about how many people at the start of King Philip's War?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 65,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 50,000.

9. King Philip was tracked down by colony-allied Native Americans led by Captain Benjamin Church and who of the Plymouth Colony militia?
(a) Captain Josiah Standish.
(b) James Wilkinson.
(c) Increase Mather.
(d) John Alderman.

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

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

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

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

14. For how much money was Mary Rowlandson ransomed?
(a) 40 pounds.
(b) 10 pounds.
(c) 20 pounds.
(d) 30 pounds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was William Charles Macready born?

2. 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?

3. Jill Lepore's book, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, was a finalist for what award?

4. 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?

5. When did Andrew Jackson die?

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