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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 9, A Ruffling Course.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did many Indians die in the summer of 1623?
(a) They were not able to plant crops.
(b) Because of a measles epidemic.
(c) Because of disease.
(d) Because of war.

2. Who did William Bradford marry?
(a) Delphina Smythe.
(b) Dorothy May.
(c) Elizabeth Brewster.
(d) Susanna White.

3. When was the "First Thanksgiving" most likely held?
(a) December.
(b) August.
(c) November.
(d) Late September or early October.

4. Where did Bradford go to worship when he became uneasy with the way God was worshipped in Austerfield?
(a) Scrooby.
(b) Leiden.
(c) Grimsby.
(d) Lincolnshire.

5. Who accompanied an English explorer who sailed from Maine in a small open boat?
(a) An Indian named Tisquantum.
(b) An Indian named Epenow.
(c) An Indian named Massassoit.
(d) An Indian named Hobbamock.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people died each day in February and March, 1621?

2. For how many days had the Mayflower blundered through storms and headwinds before reaching the New World?

3. What happened to the Indians who used to live at Plymouth?

4. Why was Massasoit sick?

5. What did some of the Wessagussett settlers trade for food?

(see the answer key)

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