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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. Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving on November 3 of what year?
(a) 1647.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1631.
(d) 1616.

2. 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) Cambridge newspapers.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The English.
(d) Boston newspapers.

3. In the Great Swamp Fight, it is believed that the militia killed about how many Narragansetts?
(a) 200.
(b) 100.
(c) 56.
(d) 300.

4. William Hubbard graduated Harvard in what year?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1601.
(c) 1650.
(d) 1642.

5. Nathaniel Saltonstall was selected as a judge for what specific court responsible for the trial and sentence of people for the crime of witchcraft in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials?
(a) Court of Anderson and Overlay.
(b) Court of Franklin and Boston.
(c) Court of Salem, Massachusetts.
(d) Court of Oyer and Terminer.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Increase Mather was the youngest of how many brothers?

3. When was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?

4. Who wrote Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians?

5. What name refers to the mostly Puritan and Pilgrim immigrants from Great Britain who settled New England starting around 1630?

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