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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. Increase Mather was the youngest of how many brothers?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

2. What is the oldest municipality in New England and one of the oldest in the United States?
(a) Boston.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Hope Bay.

3. According to the author, accounts of King Philip's War that were apocalyptic, with some being sermons, were mostly printed where?
(a) London and New York.
(b) New York.
(c) London and Paris.
(d) Boston and Cambridge.

4. 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) Boston newspapers.
(c) The Indians.
(d) Cambridge newspapers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Metacomet born?

3. What was the capital city of the Massachusetts Bay colony?

4. It is very likely that John Sassamon was adopted or indentured to the family of whom?

5. What were the villages of Christian Indians called?

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