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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three, Bondage, Chapter 6, A Dangerous Merchandise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Metacomet born?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1648.
(c) 1675.
(d) 1639.

2. When was A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England published?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1676.
(d) 1612.

3. Who strongly opposed selling Indians into slavery, arguing that slavery was worse than death?
(a) Increase Mather.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) King Philip.
(d) John Eliot.

4. Who was fiercely competitive with William Hubbard and even campaigned to discredit Hubbard's account of the war?
(a) Richard Callicot.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) William Hubbard.
(d) John Sassamon.

5. Bartholomew de Las Casas thought that if Indians souls could be redeemed, then they had worth and that therefore they should not be what?
(a) Idolized.
(b) Killed.
(c) Enslaved.
(d) Detained.

Short Answer Questions

1. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?

2. Mary Rowlandson was the fifth of how many children?

3. On what date was Mary Rowlandson ransomed?

4. According to the author, the colonists thought the powwaws received their orders from whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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