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

2. The three men who were accused as the killers of Sassamon were Mattashunannamo, Tobias, and his son, who was named what?
(a) Metacom.
(b) Patuckson.
(c) Nahauton.
(d) Wampapaquan.

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

4. 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.

5. 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 Nipmuc tribe.
(b) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(c) The Narragansett tribe.
(d) The Mohegan tribe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?

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

4. Where was John Sassamon born?

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

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