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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, War, Chapter 3, Habitations of Cruelty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians was published in what year?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1677.

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

3. How many accounts of King Philip's War represent several types of writing aimed at different audiences, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 21.
(d) 10.

4. When was Increase Mather born?
(a) 1616.
(b) 1612.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1639.

5. 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) Religion.
(c) Mythology.
(d) Literacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is credited with the founding of Medfield, Massachusetts?

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

3. When was Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians published?

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

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

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