A Narrative of the Captivity

When Mary sits with her crying baby, her captors they

• 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

At the beginning of the narrative, Mary Rowlandson's child is

• 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 bad 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

• reading her Bible and God's ultimate plan for her life

• the medicine that a sympathetic woman gives her

• her desire to avenge the death of her child

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

• cooking
• washing clothes
• sewing
• gathering firewood

Mary Rowlandson writes, "There was a squaw who spoke to me to make a shirt for her" 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

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

At the end of the story, Rowlandson uses an allusion to the biblical story of Jacob to describe

• her disgust at cooking bear meat

• the trip along the river

• her captors' march from the English army

• the heartache she feels from being separated from her other children not knowing if they are alive.