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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 were the villages of Christian Indians called?
(a) Red towns.
(b) Bible towns.
(c) Praying towns.
(d) White towns.

2. When was John Eliot born?
(a) 1595.
(b) 1641.
(c) 1604.
(d) 1612.

3. Nathaniel Saltonstall was selected as a judge for what specific court responsible for the trial and sentence of people for the crime of witchcraft in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials?
(a) Court of Anderson and Overlay.
(b) Court of Franklin and Boston.
(c) Court of Salem, Massachusetts.
(d) Court of Oyer and Terminer.

4. What was the name of the Algonquian language?
(a) Massachusett.
(b) Mohegan.
(c) Nanatuncket.
(d) Ouachitan.

5. Medfield, Massachusetts, was first settled in what year?
(a) 1649.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1654.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition?

2. According to the author, the colonists thought the powwaws received their orders from whom?

3. The colonists considered news distributed by whom to be the least reliable, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?

4. William Hubbard was the pastor of the Congregational church located where?

5. Increase Mather was a Puritan minister who was involved with the administration of what college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How is Natural Law and Just War theory described 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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