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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What were hideous to the colonists and were assigned to the Indians, according to the author?
2. According to the author, sometimes maps of New England marked English territory with small houses and churches and marked Indian territories with what?
3. The first English settlers arrived in what year, when Sassamon's parents may have welcomed them?
4. Metacomet was a war chief or sachem of what Indian tribe?
5. What was the capital city of the Massachusetts Bay colony?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did King Philip's War begin, according to the author in the Prologue? What tribes were involved?
2. How does the author relate King Philip's War to a holy war in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?
3. Who was accused of the murder of John Sassamon? How does the author describe Metacom's reaction in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?
4. How is literacy in the colonies described in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
5. What did the colonists believe of the Indian powwaws? How did this shape their view of the war, as discussed in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?
6. What reasons did the Narragansetts give for their attack on Providence, as described in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?
7. How does the author describe the English identity of the colonists in 1676 in the Prologue of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity?
8. What does the author say regarding literacy as a tool in Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist?
9. What did the author write of the changing Puritan population and identity in the 1630s and 1640s in the Prologue?
10. How did the loss of property impact the Puritans, as discussed in Part Two, War, Chapter 3, Habitations of Cruelty?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss and analyze the use of metaphor and symbolism in the accounts of King Philip's War. How can the mindset of the Puritans be seen through these metaphors?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the Puritan colonists in America. When were the colonies formed and what relationship did the English have with the Native Americans upon arriving?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the social culture of the Algonquians and their methods of communication during the war. How were military orders communicated and carried out?
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