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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tribe was Mary Rowlandson kidnapped by?
(a) The Apache tribe.
(b) The Cherokee tribe.
(c) The Mohegan tribe.
(d) The Nipmuck tribe.

2. How many children of Mary Rowlandson's were among the hostages taken by Native Americans?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

3. When did Nathaniel Saltonstall die?
(a) 1718.
(b) 1707.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1725.

4. What were hideous to the colonists and were assigned to the Indians, according to the author?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Meadows.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Swamplands.

5. Several hundred native captives were tried and executed or enslaved and sold where?
(a) Bermuda.
(b) South Africa.
(c) England.
(d) Asia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many weeks of captivity did Mary Rowlandson experience before being released on ransom?

3. When was the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus?

4. Over how many Native Americans had died during King Philip's War?

5. Sassamon was a Christian minister in what Indian praying town?

(see the answer key)

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