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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) Namasket.
(c) Metacom.
(d) Wampapaquan.

2. Passaconaway was believed to have been born between 1550 and when?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1570.
(c) 1548.
(d) 1679.

3. Metacomet was a war chief or sachem of what Indian tribe?
(a) The Ouachita tribe.
(b) The Wampanoag people.
(c) The Mohegan people.
(d) The Mahican people.

4. Who was fiercely competitive with William Hubbard and even campaigned to discredit Hubbard's account of the war?
(a) John Sassamon.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) Richard Callicot.
(d) William Hubbard.

5. The Eighty Years' War took place when?
(a) 1468-1548.
(b) 1668-1748.
(c) 1568-1648.
(d) 1642.-1722.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the Narragansetts attack Providence, destroying it?

2. 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?

3. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?

4. In 1600, the population of the Wampanoag numbered approximately how many members?

5. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was problematic for the Puritans in their plight to maintain a civil identity, as discussed in the Prologue?

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

4. Who was accused of the murder of John Sassamon? How does the author describe Metacom's reaction in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?

5. How does the author describe the portrayal of Native Americans among the colonists in Part Two, War, Chapter 3, Habitations of Cruelty?

6. 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?

7. What motivations and ethics are described of the Indian tribes for the war in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

8. How does the author describe the motivations of the colonists and the Native Americans in the war in the Prologue?

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

10. What did the colonists believe of the Indian powwaws? How did this shape their view of the war, as discussed in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

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