A Narrative of the Captivity

At the beginning of the narrative, when Mary sits with her baby, her captors --

• tell her that her master will hit the child in the head

• give her comfort

• show her herbal remedies to take care of the child

• sing chants to her

During the conflict at the begnning of Mary Rowlandson's narrative, Mary was

• very ill

• wounded

• full of energy

• frightened

In this selection, Mary Rowlandson's main intention is to --

• write a bestseller
• analyze another culture
• arouse hatred toward the Wampanoag
• show how her experience revealed God's purpose

The group that captures Rowlandson is forced to keep moving because...

• colonists are chasing them
• need for food
• treaty with the colonists
• religious practices

The best description of Rowlandson's attitude toward her children might be that she --

• misses them but believes that it builds character to live separately

• treats them as if they were adults capable of taking care of themselves

• cares passionately about them and feels terribly about being apart from them

• sternly disapproves of their weeping when she sees them

Rowlandson primarily draws strength from --

• her desire to return and tell her story to the Puritans
• her belief in God's ultimate plan
• the medicine that a sympathetic woman gives her
• her desire to avenge the death of her child

Why do you think the narrator, Rowlandson, says, "I was not a little glad that I had anything that they would accept of, and be pleased with"?

• Mary hoped they would begin to like her and allow her to leave captivity.

• Her attempt to appease (please) her master by sewing goods for him failed, and she wants to please him.

• Her attempt to appease (please) her master with a meal failed, and she wants to please him.

• None of these are accurate statements.

Mary Rowlandson writes "There was a squaw who spoke to me to make a shirt for her sannup." Her use of this Indian word for her husband tells us that she --

• has connected with some aspects of American Indian culture
• is being ironic about her captors' habits
• is not yet comfortable with her captor's ways
• must be an expert in foreign languages

When Mary Rowlandson writes, "the Lord would gather us together, and turn all those curses upon our enemies," the style of her language is most likely inspired by --

• the Bible
• an almanac
• Indian dialect
• novels 

From his plunder (objects taken from others during the war), an Indian gives Mary Rowlandson an item that she sees as evidence of "God's mercy." That item is a --

• sewing machine
• Bible
• book of poetry
• small knife