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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. On what date did the Narragansetts attack Providence, destroying it?
(a) November 14, 1676.
(b) December 10, 1675.
(c) March 29, 1676.
(d) September 12, 1568.

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

3. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?
(a) Appease the gods.
(b) Preserve the Indian way of life.
(c) Eradicate the colonists.
(d) Purify their blood.

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) 1642.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1612.

5. 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?
(a) Cambridge newspapers.
(b) Boston newspapers.
(c) The English.
(d) The Indians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the Prologue, the author describes King Philip's War as being almost over in what year?

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?

4. What does "bashaba" mean?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. 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?

10. How does the author describe the evidence surrounding John Sassamon's death in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?

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