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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When does the author describe the Narragansett cultural revival originating in the Epilogue?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1880s.
(d) The 1950s.

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

5. Who strongly opposed selling Indians into slavery, arguing that slavery was worse than death?
(a) John Eliot.
(b) King Philip.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) Increase Mather.

6. What refers to the name of a geographical feature in an official or well-established language occurring in that area where the feature is located?
(a) Catalism.
(b) Exonym.
(c) Endonym.
(d) Synonym.

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

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

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

10. The Mohawk people call themselves what, which means "people of the place of the flint"?
(a) Narraganset.
(b) Mohowaùuck.
(c) Algonquian.
(d) Kanien'gehaga.

11. When did Benjamin Church die?
(a) 1725.
(b) 1711.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1718.

12. On what date was Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags first performed?
(a) September 16, 1922.
(b) November 30, 1802.
(c) December 15, 1829.
(d) December 12, 1833.

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

14. The white population of New England totaled about how many men of military age at the start of King Philip's War?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 23,000.
(c) 16,000.
(d) 10,000.

15. Edwin Forrest made his first stage appearance on November 27, 1820, at what theater?
(a) The Metropolitan Playhouse.
(b) The Boston Globe Theater.
(c) Carnegie Hall.
(d) Walnut Street Theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Edwin Forrest born?

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

3. Jill Lepore is a professor of American history at what university?

4. What tribe was Mary Rowlandson kidnapped by?

5. In what year did the American Revolutionary War begin?

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