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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. It is very likely that John Sassamon was adopted or indentured to the family of whom?
(a) Increase Mather.
(b) Richard Callicot.
(c) William Hubbard.
(d) John Alderman.

2. The most standard narratives of King Philip's War were published where, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) New York.
(b) London.
(c) Boston.
(d) Dublin.

3. When was John Eliot born?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1604.
(c) 1641.
(d) 1595.

4. Sassamon was a Christian minister in what Indian praying town?
(a) Quebec.
(b) Nahauton.
(c) Namasket.
(d) Wampapaquan.

5. 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?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Voting rights.
(c) Religion.
(d) Mythology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?

2. The sachem Metacomet was also known by what name?

3. When was the book A Relation of the Troubles which Have Hapned in New-England by Reason of the Indians There from the Year 1614 to the Year 1675 published?

4. William Hubbard was the pastor of the Congregational church located where?

5. John Sassamon's family died during the smallpox epidemic of what year?

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