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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. When was Metacomet born?
(a) 1639.
(b) 1648.
(c) 1675.
(d) 1676.

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

3. 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 Salem, Massachusetts.
(b) Court of Franklin and Boston.
(c) Court of Anderson and Overlay.
(d) Court of Oyer and Terminer.

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

5. It is very likely that John Sassamon was adopted or indentured to the family of whom?
(a) John Alderman.
(b) William Hubbard.
(c) Richard Callicot.
(d) Increase Mather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oldest municipality in New England and one of the oldest in the United States?

2. Where was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?

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

4. Who is thought to have mentored John Sassamon?

5. According to the author, the English were particularly brutal when they attacked the Narragansetts' Great Swamp on what date?

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