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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. According to the author, the colonists took more than how many decades to rebuild what had been destroyed from King Philip's War?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

2. Who was held captive by the Narragansetts, though he was hanged and quartered for treason?
(a) John Hoar.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) James Printer.
(d) Joshua Tift.

3. What was the name of the Indian who shot King Philip?
(a) Benjamin Church.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) Captain Josiah Standish.

4. Where was Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags originally performed?
(a) The Boston Globe Theater.
(b) The Metropolitan Playhouse in New York City.
(c) The Park Theater in New York City.
(d) Carnegie Hall in New York City.

5. Who were Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain and Portugal in the 15th to 16th centuries?
(a) Argonauts.
(b) Conquistadors.
(c) Vigilantes.
(d) Crusaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. King Philip was killed on what date?

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

3. 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?

4. When was William Charles Macready born?

5. When did Benjamin Church die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Mary Rowlandson? What account did she write of King Philip's War?

2. When was the rock thought to have been engraved in the Epilogue, The Rock?

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

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

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 argument did John Eliot make against Indian slavery, as discussed in Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise?

7. How is the aftermath of the war described amongst the colonists in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan?

8. What American actor gained fame for his portrayal of Metacom in Metamora? How is he described in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 8, The Curse of Metamora?

9. 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?

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

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