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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 5, Come Go Along with Us.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The colonists considered news distributed by whom to be the least reliable, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) The English.
(b) The Indians.
(c) Cambridge newspapers.
(d) Boston newspapers.

2. How many mills in Medfield, Massachusetts, were destroyed by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

3. How many houses in Medfield, Massachusetts, were destroyed by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675?
(a) 40.
(b) 25.
(c) 27.
(d) 32.

4. William Hubbard graduated Harvard in what year?
(a) 1650.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1601.

5. Where was Increase Mather born?
(a) Boston, MA.
(b) London, England.
(c) Bern, Switzerland.
(d) Dorchester, MA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was fiercely competitive with William Hubbard and even campaigned to discredit Hubbard's account of the war?

2. According to the author, accounts of King Philip's War that were apocalyptic, with some being sermons, were mostly printed where?

3. When the Puritans came to America, the Algonquians were thought to be what?

4. On what date was Mary Rowlandson kidnapped?

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

(see the answer key)

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