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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Language, Chapter 1, Beware of Any Linguist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a domed room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes?
(a) Totem.
(b) Shaman.
(c) Tipi.
(d) Wigwam.

2. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by what means?
(a) Hunting and fishing.
(b) Growing massive gardens.
(c) Growing plantations for cotton.
(d) Stealing from other tribes.

3. The three men who were accused as the killers of Sassamon were Mattashunannamo, Tobias, and his son, who was named what?
(a) Wampapaquan.
(b) Nahauton.
(c) Metacom.
(d) Patuckson.

4. John Sassamon's family died during the smallpox epidemic of what year?
(a) 1633.
(b) 1652.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1664.

5. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?
(a) The Nipmuc tribe.
(b) The Narragansett tribe.
(c) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(d) The Mohegan tribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In 1600, the population of the Wampanoag numbered approximately how many members?

3. Who served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680?

4. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?

5. Who was the first Englishman to learn the Algonquian language?

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