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

2. When was Hugo Grotius born?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1489.
(c) 1548.
(d) 1583.

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

4. King Philip was killed on what date?
(a) May 1, 1676.
(b) August 23, 1677.
(c) November 14, 1676.
(d) August 12, 1676.

5. In what year did the American Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1756.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1755.
(d) 1775.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Mohawk people call themselves what, which means "people of the place of the flint"?

2. On what date did the Narragansetts attack Providence, destroying it?

3. When was Increase Mather born?

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

5. To whom did Captain Church give a hand of the deceased King Philip?

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