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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. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?
(a) Metacom.
(b) Nahauton.
(c) Namasket.
(d) Wampapaquan.

2. When was the book A Relation of the Troubles which Have Hapned in New-England by Reason of the Indians There from the Year 1614 to the Year 1675 published?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1677.

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) Voting rights.
(d) Literacy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. William Hubbard graduated Harvard in what year?

2. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?

3. What is defined as an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition?

4. When was William Hubbard born?

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

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