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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. What is defined as an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition?
(a) Savagery.
(b) Culture.
(c) Civilization.
(d) Redemption.

2. How many accounts of King Philip's War represent several types of writing aimed at different audiences, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) 12.
(b) 21.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

3. When Mary Rowlandson returned to Boston, she ended up encountering some Christian Indians who brought her a letter from whom?
(a) John Hoar.
(b) Joshua Tift.
(c) Increase Mather.
(d) James Printer.

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

5. When was Hugo Grotius born?
(a) 1583.
(b) 1548.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1489.

Short Answer Questions

1. The majority of the dead Native Americans and many of the colonials during the war died as the result of what?

2. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?

3. On what date did the Narragansetts attack Providence, destroying it?

4. It is very likely that John Sassamon was adopted or indentured to the family of whom?

5. According to the author, the English were particularly brutal when they attacked the Narragansetts' Great Swamp on what date?

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