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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 Ouachita people.
(b) The Pequot people.
(c) The Cherokee people.
(d) The Blackfoot people.

2. When was Bartholomew de Las Casas born?
(a) 1425.
(b) 1515.
(c) 1484.
(d) 1495.

3. Which President of the United States was Andrew Jackson?
(a) Sixth.
(b) Fifth.
(c) Seventh.
(d) Fourth.

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

5. What book did Mary Rowlandson write about her capture by Native Americans?
(a) A History of New England.
(b) The Sovereignty and Goodness of God.
(c) The Grace and Glory of Our Savior.
(d) Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England.

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

7. 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 Penobscot people.
(b) The Cherokee people.
(c) The Ouachita people.
(d) The Mohegan people.

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

9. 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) Synonym.
(b) Catalism.
(c) Exonym.
(d) Endonym.

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

11. Who was the husband of Mary Rowlandson?
(a) Rev. Andrew Rowlandson.
(b) Rev. Henry Rowlandson.
(c) Rev. James Rowlandson.
(d) Rev. Joseph Rowlandson.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Metacomet's wife and son sent after they had been captured?

2. The Five Civilized Tribes were the five Native American nations: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and what?

3. When Mary Rowlandson returned to Boston, she ended up encountering some Christian Indians who brought her a letter from whom?

4. 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?

5. What was the name of Metacomet's wife?

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