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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bess need after visiting Anne Hutchinson's house?
(a) An alibi
(b) A cup of coffee
(c) A ride home
(d) Some medicine for a headache

2. How does the Fones family travel to the family manor in Groton?
(a) By train
(b) By foot
(c) By cart
(d) By boat

3. To what is Bess looking forward?
(a) Raising a child
(b) Sewing some new clothes
(c) Learning to cook
(d) Going to Barbados with Harry

4. Who is crowned the Queen of May Day?
(a) Sara
(b) Martha (Mattie)
(c) Margaret
(d) Bess

5. What do the Fones children think of their uncle?
(a) He is very intelligent and reads stories to them.
(b) He is an outdoorsman and teaches them how to ride horses.
(c) He is playful and loves spending time with them.
(d) He bores them with his interminable praying.

6. What do the men need before they can plan their journey to the new world?
(a) A crate of Bibles
(b) Financial backing
(c) Provisions that will last for months
(d) A good ship

7. Why do Bess and Harry require a special marriage license?
(a) Because they are Episcopalians
(b) Because they are underage
(c) Because they are cousins
(d) Because they are papists

8. What news does Bess deliver to her father that makes him hit her with a stick?
(a) That she has never loved her father
(b) That she and Harry wish to be married
(c) That she wants to move to Barbados
(d) That she is pregnant with Edward's child

9. What has Bess' cousin, Harry, sent from Barbados?
(a) Beaded jewelry
(b) Rum
(c) Coconut milk
(d) Inferior tobacco

10. What is the name of the ship that Harry's friend, Willaim Pelham, sails on to New England?
(a) Monarch
(b) Majestic
(c) Mystic
(d) Mayflower

11. What really concerns Edward Howes about what is going on in the Fones household?
(a) That Martha is not being tutored
(b) That Mr. Fones is near death
(c) That Robert Seaton may be a Catholic
(d) That Bess has fallen in love with Robert Seaton

12. How has Bess' behavior changed since Harry and Robert have moved into the Fones house?
(a) She studies all the time.
(b) She is more diligent about the apothecary business.
(c) She wears makeup and goes to improper places.
(d) She goes to church twice a day.

13. What has happened to many of the Indians in the area?
(a) They are almost wiped out due to illness.
(b) They are planting food indigenous to Europe.
(c) They are learning the white man's ways.
(d) They are learning to speak English.

14. What is the personality of Anne Fones' mother?
(a) Pleasant and caring
(b) Stern and formal
(c) Happy and boisterous
(d) Sick and tired

15. What possession of Bess' does John Winthrop still have in his possession which Bess wants returned?
(a) Her dowry
(b) Her wedding brooch
(c) Her father's mortar and pestle
(d) Her mother's china

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not seem interested in marrying Bess?

2. What does Bess realize shortly after her marriage to Harry?

3. Why is Bess drawn to her new friend, Mirabelle?

4. With whom is Bess in love?

5. What is a papist?

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