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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many days had the Mayflower blundered through storms and headwinds before reaching the New World?
(a) 45 days.
(b) 65 days.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 4 months.

2. By spring 1621, how many of those who had originally arrive at Provincetown had died?
(a) 52.
(b) 24.
(c) 10.
(d) 72.

3. How old was the most powerful Native leader in the region?
(a) 48.
(b) 27.
(c) 52.
(d) 35.

4. Who was the Manomet sachem?
(a) Iyanough.
(b) Aspinet.
(c) Canacum.
(d) Massasoit.

5. What did Francis Billington claim to see when he climbed a tree on Fort Hill?
(a) A large river.
(b) An Indian raiding party.
(c) A great sea.
(d) Apple trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Jones decide they were near as the Mayflower headed toward shore?

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

3. What happened after more than fifty years of peace between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans?

4. What Pilgrim went with Squanto to greet the sachem?

5. With whom did the Pilgrim's first Indian visitor spend the night?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Pilgrims solve the problem of having to entertain and feed a continual stream of Indian visitors?

2. In 1605, a map indicated between one thousand and two thousand people living along the shores where the Pilgrims planned to settle. Why were no Indians living along the shore now?

3. Why did the Pilgrims decide to build a wall around their community?

4. Why wasn't the terrain surrounding Plymouth a primeval forest?

5. Where should the Pilgrims have settled rather than Plymouth?

6. Why were passengers in an uproar when they learned they were headed to New England rather than the Hudson River?

7. What decision did passengers of the Mayflower have to make now that they were near land?

8. Why did the Seaflower depart from New England bound for the Caribbean in 1676?

9. How did the Pilgrims' first Indian visitor, Samoset, learn to speak English?

10. Why do some people think that Dorothy Bradford may have committed suicide?

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