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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 107 - 156).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice Bradford think Standish has been doing more of recently rather than fighting Indians?
(a) Planting crops.
(b) Minding his own children.
(c) Squabbling with the black sheep of the colony.
(d) Teaching schoolchildren.

2. What letters does William Bradford write to his investors in London from the boarding house?
(a) Everything is going well with the journey.
(b) They are in dire financial straits.
(c) They have decided not to go to the colonies because the weather is too poor.
(d) They have decided to go to Boston instead of Plymouth because the soil there is better.

3. What is one reason some Plymouth colonists resent the Billingtons?
(a) They have the healthiest children.
(b) They have more money than anyone else.
(c) They are the most skilled carpenters at Plymouth.
(d) They do not attend Sunday church.

4. Whose house is Billington's directly across from?
(a) Thomas Weston's.
(b) William Bradford's.
(c) Myles Standish's.
(d) Thomas Morton's.

5. What does Alice give to Newcomen when she first sees him?
(a) Eggs.
(b) Milk.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Alice's newborn baby in Part I?

2. Who are the Dutch experiencing tense relations with in Part III?

3. What does the indentured servant's rapist threaten to do if she tells anyone what he did to her?

4. What does Alice hear people at the boarding house calling their group in Part III that offends her?

5. What is the word the colonists use when someone is bad-tempered?

(see the answer key)

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