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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 book did Jill Lepore publish in 2010?
(a) The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History.
(b) A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States.
(c) Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents.
(d) Blindspot: A Novel.

2. When Mary Rowlandson returned to Boston, she ended up encountering some Christian Indians who brought her a letter from whom?
(a) Joshua Tift.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) John Hoar.
(d) James Printer.

3. Who originated the Narragansett cultural revival?
(a) King Alexander.
(b) Princess Red Wing.
(c) Massasoit.
(d) Wamsutta.

4. The majority of the dead Native Americans and many of the colonials during the war died as the result of what?
(a) Disease.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Fire.
(d) Suicide.

5. What refers to the name of a geographical feature in an official or well-established language occurring in that area where the feature is located?
(a) Synonym.
(b) Exonym.
(c) Endonym.
(d) Catalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jill Lepore's book, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, was a finalist for what award?

2. Bartholomew de Las Casas thought that if Indians souls could be redeemed, then they had worth and that therefore they should not be what?

3. Jill Lepore is a contributing writer for what publication?

4. What was the name of King Philip's father?

5. Mary Rowlandson was the fifth of how many children?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was the play Metamora first presented? How was it received?

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

3. What was represented by the appearance of King Philip's head in Plymouth, as discussed in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan?

4. How does the author describe cultural revivals among the Indians in Epilogue, The Rock?

5. When were Metacom's wife and child captured? Where does the author say they were taken in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise?

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

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

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

9. What does the rock symbolically represent, according to the author in the Epilogue, The Rock?

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

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