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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four, Memory, Chapter 8, The Curse of Metamora.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Metacomet born?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1639.
(c) 1675.
(d) 1648.

2. 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 Indians.
(b) The English.
(c) Boston newspapers.
(d) Cambridge newspapers.

3. What, according to the author, is in many ways a simple tool and is often controlled by the powerful, because it can be used to change minds?
(a) Mythology.
(b) Religion.
(c) Literacy.
(d) Voting rights.

4. Who was fiercely competitive with William Hubbard and even campaigned to discredit Hubbard's account of the war?
(a) Increase Mather.
(b) John Sassamon.
(c) Richard Callicot.
(d) William Hubbard.

5. The white population of New England totaled about how many people at the start of King Philip's War?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 65,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 40,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say represented filth and chaos to the Puritans in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?

2. What does "bashaba" mean?

3. What is the name of an Algonquian Native American tribe from Rhode Island?

4. The Five Civilized Tribes were the five Native American nations: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and what?

5. Historians know little of what happened to King Philip's son except that he was sold into slavery and probably shipped where?

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