Mayflower Test | Final Test - Easy

Nathaniel Philbrick
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Mayflower Test | Final Test - Easy

Nathaniel Philbrick
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area had become Plymouth colony's one oasis of safety?
(a) Lancaster.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Newport.
(d) Cape Cod.

2. What isolated town was attached by the Nipmucks on August 2, 1675?
(a) Mount Hope.
(b) Newport.
(c) Taunton.
(d) Brookfield.

3. Why did the Great Migration come to an end in the early 1640s?
(a) The colonies had become too religious for many people.
(b) English civil war.
(c) The land was becoming too settled.
(d) There was too great a threat of Indian attacks.

4. Why was Massasoit sick?
(a) Probably measles.
(b) Food poisoning.
(c) Someone had tried to poison him.
(d) Probably typhus.

5. Who was he leader of the Connecticut forces?
(a) Captain Thomas Lathrop.
(b) Samuel Moseley.
(c) Josiah Winslow.
(d) Major John Talcott.

6. How many tons of lumber were required to build a home in the 1650s?
(a) 14 tons.
(b) 6 tons.
(c) 12 tons.
(d) 1 ton.

7. What friendly tribe had their wigwams burned by Moseley?
(a) Narragansett.
(b) Praying Indians.
(c) Penacooks.
(d) Pokanoket.

8. What was the chief concern of Weston's men?
(a) Building a fort.
(b) Fear of the Indians.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Catching typhus.

9. What ability had the Pilgrims temporarily ruined after the Wessagusett raid?
(a) Ability to trade.
(b) Their relationship with Massasoit.
(c) Their relationship with Canacum.
(d) Their relationship with Iyanough.

10. What diseases afflicted the Pokanokets in 1634?
(a) Typhus and influenza.
(b) Smallpox and influenza.
(c) Measles and mumps.
(d) Typhus and measles.

11. Who did Bradford learn died in 1625?
(a) Cushman.
(b) Weston.
(c) Roger Williams.
(d) John Robinson.

12. Who bought the Mount Hope Peninsula went it was for sale in 1680?
(a) Investors from Boston.
(b) Colonists from Plymouth.
(c) The Narragansetts.
(d) The Sakonnets.

13. Who was the only Englishman in Sakonnet?
(a) Thomas Moseley.
(b) Francis Cook.
(c) John Leverett.
(d) Benjamin Church.

14. What English woman was taken captive in Lancaster?
(a) Penelope Winslow.
(b) Mary Rowlandson.
(c) Alice Church.
(d) Sarah Winslow.

15. What was a shocking outrage to the Puritans at Kickemuit?
(a) The Indians had raped a white woman.
(b) The Indians captured some white women.
(c) The Indians had torn a Bible.
(d) The Indians had sent their dogs into a church.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many acres of land had to be deforested in a year for a town of two hundred homes?

2. What became the economic center of the region after 1660?

3. Who were the most feared warriors in the Northeast?

4. Who insisted that the Indians were the legal owners of their lands?

5. How did the Indians cross the Bacquag River?

(see the answer keys)

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