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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?
(a) Namasket.
(b) Nahauton.
(c) Metacom.
(d) Wampapaquan.

2. According to the author, many colonists found it hard to write about the war, such as what individual who felt totally devastated by his experience of the burning of Springfield?
(a) John Alderman.
(b) William Hubbard.
(c) John Pynchon.
(d) Richard Callicot.

3. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by what means?
(a) Growing plantations for cotton.
(b) Stealing from other tribes.
(c) Hunting and fishing.
(d) Growing massive gardens.

4. When did the Pequot War begin?
(a) 1615.
(b) 1654.
(c) 1634.
(d) 1662.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?

2. The three men who were accused as the killers of Sassamon were Mattashunannamo, Tobias, and his son, who was named what?

3. Who served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680?

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

5. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?

(see the answer key)

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