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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Benjamin Church die?
(a) 1725.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1718.
(d) 1711.

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

3. What name refers to the mostly Puritan and Pilgrim immigrants from Great Britain who settled New England starting around 1630?
(a) The English Colonists.
(b) The British Brigade.
(c) The English Arrivals.
(d) The Spanish Colonists.

4. The Mohawk people call themselves what, which means "people of the place of the flint"?
(a) Mohowaùuck.
(b) Narraganset.
(c) Algonquian.
(d) Kanien'gehaga.

5. What is defined as an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition?
(a) Civilization.
(b) Culture.
(c) Redemption.
(d) Savagery.

Short Answer Questions

1. The money that ransomed Mary Rowlandson was paid by whom?

2. 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?

3. The white population of New England totaled about how many people at the start of King Philip's War?

4. In the Great Swamp Fight, it is believed that the militia killed about how many Narragansetts?

5. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?

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