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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?
(a) Nahauton.
(b) Wampapaquan.
(c) Namasket.
(d) Metacom.

2. One house, known as what, was burnt in King Philip's War but was rebuilt shortly thereafter near downtown Medfield, Massachusetts?
(a) The Peak House.
(b) The Orchard House.
(c) The Boston House.
(d) The Medfield Mansion.

3. What, according to the author, is in many ways a simple tool and is often controlled by the powerful, because it can be used to change minds?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Mythology.
(c) Voting rights.
(d) Religion.

4. When was the book A Relation of the Troubles which Have Hapned in New-England by Reason of the Indians There from the Year 1614 to the Year 1675 published?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1612.

5. What was the capital city of the Massachusetts Bay colony?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Boston.
(c) Jamestown.
(d) Plymouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means "shaman" in the language of the Narragansett?

2. William Hubbard graduated Harvard in what year?

3. The three men who were accused as the killers of Sassamon were Mattashunannamo, Tobias, and his son, who was named what?

4. Who is credited with the founding of Medfield, Massachusetts?

5. When was Metacomet born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say regarding literacy as a tool in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?

2. When did King Philip's War begin, according to the author in the Prologue? What tribes were involved?

3. How is the early life of John Sassamon described in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?

4. How does the author describe the English identity of the colonists in 1676 in the Prologue of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity?

5. Describe the methods of news and communication within the colonies, as discussed in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed. How reliable were news sources?

6. What does the author remark regarding suffering and writing about the war in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?

7. What did the author write of the changing Puritan population and identity in the 1630s and 1640s in the Prologue?

8. What reasons did the Narragansetts give for their attack on Providence, as described in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

9. What publication did Nathaniel Saltonstall write of the war? How is it described in Part Two, War, Chapter 3, Habitations of Cruelty?

10. How is Natural Law and Just War theory described in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

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