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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 Pocomtuc tribe.
(b) The Narragansett tribe.
(c) The Mohegan tribe.
(d) The Nipmuc tribe.

3. William Hubbard was the pastor of the Congregational church located where?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) Boston, MA.
(c) Ipswich, MA.
(d) Salem, MA.

4. 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) Voting rights.
(b) Mythology.
(c) Literacy.
(d) Religion.

5. What was the capital city of the Massachusetts Bay colony?
(a) Plymouth.
(b) Boston.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Jamestown.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first English settlers arrived in what year, when Sassamon's parents may have welcomed them?

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

3. Metacomet was a war chief or sachem of what Indian tribe?

4. Increase Mather was a Puritan minister who was involved with the administration of what college?

5. When was John Eliot born?

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