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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. In what year did the American Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1755.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1756.

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

6. When was the Indian Removal Act signed into law?
(a) March 12, 1865.
(b) September 1, 1825.
(c) May 28, 1830.
(d) May 2, 1818.

7. King Philip was killed on what date?
(a) August 12, 1676.
(b) November 14, 1676.
(c) May 1, 1676.
(d) August 23, 1677.

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

9. When did Andrew Jackson die?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1755.
(d) 1845.

10. The Five Civilized Tribes were the five Native American nations: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and what?
(a) Algonquian.
(b) Seminole.
(c) Mohegan.
(d) Mohawk.

11. 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) Jeremiah Evarts.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) Increase Mather.
(d) Richard Callicot.

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

13. 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) 1775.
(c) 1645.
(d) 1681.

14. 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?
(a) Hanged, drawn and quartered.
(b) Execution by Fire Marshal.
(c) Execution by guillotine.
(d) Burning at the stake.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Mary Rowlandson born?

2. Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags was written in what year?

3. What was the name of the Indian who shot King Philip?

4. When was the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus?

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

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