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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. For how much money was Mary Rowlandson ransomed?
(a) 20 pounds.
(b) 40 pounds.
(c) 30 pounds.
(d) 10 pounds.

2. What was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III and his successor, Edward I?
(a) Execution by guillotine.
(b) Hanged, drawn and quartered.
(c) Burning at the stake.
(d) Execution by Fire Marshal.

3. In what year, five years after King Philip's War ended, had many of the colonists resolved to be less violent and rash towards the Indians?
(a) 1645.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1681.

4. To whom did Captain Church give a hand of the deceased King Philip?
(a) Richard Callicot.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) William Hubbard.
(d) John Sassamon.

5. Over how many Native Americans had died during King Philip's War?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 700.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jill Lepore is a professor of American history at what university?

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

3. The Five Civilized Tribes were the five Native American nations: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and what?

4. Who was the husband of Mary Rowlandson?

5. Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags was written in what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Metacom's memorial described in the Epilogue, The Rock? When was it discovered?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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