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

2. Who was the husband of Mary Rowlandson?
(a) Rev. Andrew Rowlandson.
(b) Rev. Henry Rowlandson.
(c) Rev. James Rowlandson.
(d) Rev. Joseph Rowlandson.

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

4. The white population of New England totaled about how many men of military age at the start of King Philip's War?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 16,000.
(d) 10,000.

5. Mohegan translates to what in English?
(a) "People of the bear".
(b) "Children of the Star".
(c) "People of the Swamp".
(d) "People of the wolf".

Short Answer Questions

1. What region was the main site of conflict during King Philip's War?

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?

3. What was the capital city of the Massachusetts Bay colony?

4. Which tribe of Native Americans, in the 17th century, inhabited much of what is now Connecticut?

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

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