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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. When did William Charles Macready die?
(a) 1755.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1793.
(d) 1919.

2. The rock on the shore of Mount Hope Bay translates from Cherokee to say what in English?
(a) "King Philip, killer of the White Man".
(b) "Metacomet, Child of God".
(c) "Metacomet, Great Sachem".
(d) "Metacomet died here".

3. Several hundred native captives were tried and executed or enslaved and sold where?
(a) South Africa.
(b) England.
(c) Bermuda.
(d) Asia.

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

5. Benjamin Church is considered the father of what?
(a) Modernism.
(b) The American Dream.
(c) American ranging.
(d) The American West.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what event did King Philip's head make an appearance in Plymouth following the war?

2. Which tribe of Native Americans, in the 17th century, inhabited much of what is now Connecticut?

3. The white population of New England totaled about how many men of military age at the start of King Philip's War?

4. Over how many Native Americans had died during King Philip's War?

5. King Philip was killed on what date?

Short Essay Questions

1. What issues did the colonists have with distinguishing captured Indians, as discussed in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise?

2. How does the author describe the treatment of Philip's body in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan?

3. 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?

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

5. What happened after James Printer was released from captivity, as described in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 5, Come Go Along with Us?

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

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

8. How is the relationship between the Indians and the colonists described in 1681 in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan?

9. How does the author describe the symbolism of Metamora in regard to American identity in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 8, The Curse of Metamora?

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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