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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. Cambridge University Press was granted letters patent by Henry VIII in what year?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1534.
(c) 1596.
(d) 1515.

2. Where was Edwin Forrest born?
(a) Philadelphia, PA.
(b) New Brunswick, Canada.
(c) Boston, MA.
(d) New York, NY.

3. Jill Lepore's book, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, was a finalist for what award?
(a) The Bancroft Prize in History.
(b) The Pulitzer Prize in Literature.
(c) The Bancroft Prize in Literature.
(d) The Pulitzer Prize in History.

4. On what date was Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags first performed?
(a) November 30, 1802.
(b) December 15, 1829.
(c) December 12, 1833.
(d) September 16, 1922.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jill Lepore earned a B.A. in English at what university?

2. When did Benjamin Church die?

3. When was Andrew Jackson born?

4. What tribe was Mary Rowlandson kidnapped by?

5. How many weeks of captivity did Mary Rowlandson experience before being released on ransom?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. Why was King Philip's War resurrected during the American Revolution, as discussed in Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan?

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

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