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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 rock on the shore of Mount Hope Bay was etched before what year, according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1840.

2. Mary Rowlandson was the fifth of how many children?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

3. When did Mary Rowlandson die?
(a) 1568.
(b) 1742.
(c) 1711.
(d) 1612.

4. Which tribe of Native Americans, in the 17th century, inhabited much of what is now Connecticut?
(a) The Ouachita people.
(b) The Blackfoot people.
(c) The Cherokee people.
(d) The Pequot people.

5. King Philip was tracked down by colony-allied Native Americans led by Captain Benjamin Church and who of the Plymouth Colony militia?
(a) Increase Mather.
(b) Captain Josiah Standish.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) James Wilkinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Bartholomew de Las Casas born?

2. Edwin Forrest made his first stage appearance on November 27, 1820, at what theater?

3. How many children of Mary Rowlandson's were among the hostages taken by Native Americans?

4. According to the author, the colonists took more than how many decades to rebuild what had been destroyed from King Philip's War?

5. When did Bartholomew de Las Casas die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did critics say of the play Metamora? Who supported the play as propaganda for Indian Removal?

2. How does the author describe Mary Rowlandson's perspective of identity in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 5, Come Go Along with Us?

3. Who was Joshue Tift? What experience did he have in captivity, as discussed in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 5, Come Go Along with Us?

4. How was Edwin Forrest's portrayal of Metamora received in England? What does the author write of this in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 8, The Curse of Metamora?

5. What view did Bartholomew de Las Casas have regarding Indian slavery, as described in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise?

6. What does the author write regarding the legend of King Philip and our perception of him through the eyes of history?

7. What book did Washington Irving write about King Philip's War? How is it described in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 8, The Curse of Metamora?

8. What theories does the author describe for James Printer's captivity in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 5, Come Go Along with Us?

9. What does the author conclude regarding American identity in the Epilogue, The Rock?

10. How does the author describe the aftermath of the war for the Indians in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan? What was the cause of the majority of deaths in the war?

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