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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four, Memory, Chapter 7, That Blasphemous Leviathan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Boston and Cambridge.
(c) London and New York.
(d) London and Paris.

2. On what date was Mary Rowlandson kidnapped?
(a) March 13, 1675.
(b) February 3, 1677.
(c) September 1, 1677.
(d) February 10, 1676.

3. King Philip was tracked down by colony-allied Native Americans led by Captain Benjamin Church and who of the Plymouth Colony militia?
(a) Increase Mather.
(b) James Wilkinson.
(c) John Alderman.
(d) Captain Josiah Standish.

4. Mary Rowlandson was the fifth of how many children?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. John Sassamon was born circa what year?

2. Passaconaway is said to have died in what year?

3. When was the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus?

4. 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?

5. In what year, five years after King Philip's War ended, had many of the colonists resolved to be less violent and rash towards the Indians?

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