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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. How many weeks of captivity did Mary Rowlandson experience before being released on ransom?
(a) 11.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

2. Where was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?
(a) Cambridge, MA.
(b) Ipswich, MA.
(c) New York, NY.
(d) Boston, MA.

3. What were hideous to the colonists and were assigned to the Indians, according to the author?
(a) Swamplands.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Meadows.
(d) Rivers.

4. When was Increase Mather born?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1616.
(d) 1639.

5. What is defined as an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Culture.
(c) Savagery.
(d) Civilization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Mary Rowlandson born?

2. When Mary Rowlandson returned to Boston, she ended up encountering some Christian Indians who brought her a letter from whom?

3. 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?

4. Who were Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain and Portugal in the 15th to 16th centuries?

5. According to the author, many colonists found it hard to write about the war, such as what individual who felt totally devastated by his experience of the burning of Springfield?

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