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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. Over how many Native Americans had died during King Philip's War?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 700.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 4,000.

2. Increase Mather was a Puritan minister who was involved with the administration of what college?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Boston College.
(c) Harvard College.
(d) Princeton University.

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

4. Passaconaway was a powerful medicine man and sachem of what tribe?
(a) The Penacook tribe.
(b) The Mohegan tribe.
(c) The Mohawk tribe.
(d) The Cherokee tribe.

5. In the 1670s the powwaws of many tribes encouraged war in order to do what?
(a) Eradicate the colonists.
(b) Preserve the Indian way of life.
(c) Appease the gods.
(d) Purify their blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians published?

2. What were the villages of Christian Indians called?

3. 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?

4. According to the author in Chapter 4, Where is Your O God?, due to their great losses, many New England colonists thought God was punishing them for their failure to do what?

5. What word means "shaman" in the language of the Narragansett?

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