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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Sassamon's family died during the smallpox epidemic of what year?
(a) 1652.
(b) 1612.
(c) 1664.
(d) 1633.

2. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?
(a) The Narragansett tribe.
(b) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(c) The Mohegan tribe.
(d) The Nipmuc tribe.

3. Where was William Hubbard born?
(a) England.
(b) Philadelphia, PA.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) New Brunswick, Canada.

4. Who was the first Englishman to learn the Algonquian language?
(a) John Eliot.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) William Hubbard.
(d) John Sassamon.

5. John Sassamon was born circa what year?
(a) 1648.
(b) 1688.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1600.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John Sassamon born?

2. Sassamon was a Christian minister in what Indian praying town?

3. Where was Increase Mather born?

4. A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians was published in what year?

5. It is very likely that John Sassamon was adopted or indentured to the family of whom?

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