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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. What standard picture of New England during the war, including landscapes of ash, farms destroyed, and bodies without heads did Nathaniel Saltonstall write?
(a) "An Account of King Philip's War."
(b) "A Brief Account of New England."
(c) "A History of the Great War."
(d) "True but Brief Account of our Losses."

2. When was Increase Mather born?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1616.
(d) 1639.

3. John Sassamon was born circa what year?
(a) 1600.
(b) 1612.
(c) 1688.
(d) 1648.

4. What does "bashaba" mean?
(a) Chief of chiefs.
(b) White man.
(c) Enemy.
(d) Child of the shaman.

5. Who served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680?
(a) John Alderman.
(b) William Hubbard.
(c) Josiah Winslow.
(d) Richard Callicot.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Pequot War begin?

2. What does the author say represented filth and chaos to the Puritans in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

3. Medfield, Massachusetts, was first settled in what year?

4. Increase Mather was the youngest of how many brothers?

5. Where was William Hubbard born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nathaniel Saltonstall describe the war in relation to the body, as discussed in Part Two, War, Chapter 3, Habitations of Cruelty?

2. How were homes used as a metaphor by Nathaniel Saltonstall, as described in Part Two, War, Chapter 3, Habitations of Cruelty?

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

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

5. 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?

6. How did the actions of the English impact the Native American people, according to the author in the Prologue?

7. How is literacy in the colonies described in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?

8. Where were most of the accounts of the war published, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed? How are the accounts described?

9. How does the author describe the spiritual views of the Native Americans regarding the war in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

10. How was John Sassamon involved in King Philip's War, as discussed in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?

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