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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. Historians know little of what happened to King Philip's son except that he was sold into slavery and probably shipped where?
(a) To East Asia.
(b) To England.
(c) To the West Indes.
(d) To South Africa.

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

3. The money that ransomed Mary Rowlandson was paid by whom?
(a) James Printer.
(b) John Hoar.
(c) Joshua Tift.
(d)

4. When was a rock on the shore of Mount Hope Bay discovered with Cherokee writing on it, according to the author in the Epilogue?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1818.

5. The white population of New England totaled about how many men of military age at the start of King Philip's War?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 23,000.
(c) 16,000.
(d) 25,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who strongly opposed selling Indians into slavery, arguing that slavery was worse than death?

2. The Mohawk people call themselves what, which means "people of the place of the flint"?

3. When was Bartholomew de Las Casas born?

4. When does the author describe the Narragansett cultural revival originating in the Epilogue?

5. When was Andrew Jackson born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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