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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 Mary Rowlandson returned to Boston, she ended up encountering some Christian Indians who brought her a letter from whom?
(a) John Hoar.
(b) Joshua Tift.
(c) Increase Mather.
(d) James Printer.

2. 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?
(a) Kill all of the Indians.
(b) Convert the Indians to Christianity.
(c) Remain loyal to the Crown.
(d) Maintain purity.

3. What does "bashaba" mean?
(a) White man.
(b) Enemy.
(c) Chief of chiefs.
(d) Child of the shaman.

4. A prodigious learner, Hugo Grotius entered the University of Leiden when he was how old?
(a) 11.
(b) 15.
(c) 16.
(d) 12.

5. What was the name of the Algonquian language?
(a) Ouachitan.
(b) Nanatuncket.
(c) Massachusett.
(d) Mohegan.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What, according to the author, is in many ways a simple tool and is often controlled by the powerful, because it can be used to change minds?

3. In the Prologue, the author describes King Philip's War as being almost over in what year?

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

5. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?

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