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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. According to the author, the English were particularly brutal when they attacked the Narragansetts' Great Swamp on what date?
(a) November 10, 1674.
(b) December 19, 1675.
(c) September 1, 1675.
(d) August 13, 1677.

2. What was the name of the Algonquian language?
(a) Nanatuncket.
(b) Mohegan.
(c) Massachusett.
(d) Ouachitan.

3. The three men who were accused as the killers of Sassamon were Mattashunannamo, Tobias, and his son, who was named what?
(a) Metacom.
(b) Nahauton.
(c) Wampapaquan.
(d) Patuckson.

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

5. Where was John Sassamon born?
(a) Near current New York, NY.
(b) Near current Boston, MA.
(c) Near current Washington, D.C.
(d) Near current Canton, MA.

Short Answer Questions

1. What standard picture of New England during the war, including landscapes of ash, farms destroyed, and bodies without heads did Nathaniel Saltonstall write?

2. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by what means?

3. How many houses in Medfield, Massachusetts, were destroyed by Native Americans during King Philip's War in 1675?

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

5. Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving on November 3 of what year?

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