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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) 1648.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1600.

2. 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 English.
(d) The Indians.

3. According to the author, accounts of King Philip's War that were apocalyptic, with some being sermons, were mostly printed where?
(a) New York.
(b) London and New York.
(c) Boston and Cambridge.
(d) London and Paris.

4. 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) Dublin.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

5. Increase Mather was a Puritan minister who was involved with the administration of what college?
(a) Boston College.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Harvard College.
(d) Princeton University.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Metacomet born?

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

3. What was the name of the Algonquian language?

4. Metacomet was a war chief or sachem of what Indian tribe?

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

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