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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 209 - 266).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thomas Weston tell John Billington his letter did among the investors?
(a) Caused a stir.
(b) Made them realize Billington should be cast out of the colony and move to Boston instead.
(c) Made them realize Billington should be a priest.
(d) Made them realize how unfairly he had been treated.

2. Why does Eleanor Billington hope the colony leaders will pardon John Billington for the murder?
(a) Alice will convince them to be compassionate.
(b) They are actually merciful.
(c) They will not want blood on their own hands.
(d) They will be attacked by the Indians if they kill one of their own.

3. Who does John Billington ask to speak with privately at the very start of Part III?
(a) Alice.
(b) Morton.
(c) Bradford.
(d) Standish.

4. Why does Eleanor Billington tell Alice Bradford that William Bradford married her?
(a) Because she is rich.
(b) Because she is simple.
(c) Because she is pretty.
(d) Because she is loving.

5. What does the Speedwell's master say is wrong about a half-day into their journey?
(a) The ship is short of sailors.
(b) The ship has hit an iceberg.
(c) The ship has bad spirits aboard.
(d) The ship leaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does William Bradford often do in the afternoons?

2. What do John Billington and Thomas Morton do to excess at Billington's house in Part IV?

3. What does John Billington tell the person he speaks with privately at the very beginning of Part III?

4. What does Alice often tell her children to try to get them to behave?

5. What does Alice give to Newcomen when she first sees him?

(see the answer key)

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