A Narrative of the Captivity

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

At the beginning of the narrative, Mary Rowlandson is --

• very ill 
• wounded
• full of energy
• frightened

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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

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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

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 bad about being apart from them
• sternly disapproves of their weeping when she sees them

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Rowlandson receives food from several members of the tribe in exchange for --

• cooking
• washing clothes
• sewing
• gathering firewood

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CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.9

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

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

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 

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2