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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, sometimes maps of New England marked English territory with small houses and churches and marked Indian territories with what?
(a) Tipis.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Trees.
(d) Swamps.

2. In the Prologue, the author describes King Philip's War as being almost over in what year?
(a) 1616.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1675.
(d) 1648.

3. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?
(a) The Nipmuc tribe.
(b) The Narragansett tribe.
(c) The Mohegan tribe.
(d) The Pocomtuc tribe.

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

5. A prodigious learner, Hugo Grotius entered the University of Leiden when he was how old?
(a) 12.
(b) 11.
(c) 16.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?

2. How many mills in Medfield, Massachusetts, were destroyed by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675?

3. When was Hugo Grotius born?

4. What standard picture of New England during the war, including landscapes of ash, farms destroyed, and bodies without heads did Nathaniel Saltonstall write?

5. Passaconaway is said to have died in what year?

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