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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 John Newcomen ask Myles Standish for after his first meeting with John Billington?
(a) Money to get started.
(b) A different plot of land.
(c) A new gun.
(d) Training to shoot his musket.

2. What day of the week is John Billington's hanging scheduled for?
(a) Monday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Friday.

3. What does Eleanor Billington tell Alice accounts for John Billington's actions?
(a) A lack of food.
(b) His being drunk.
(c) A momentary imbalance of bodily humors.
(d) The frustrations he has felt for almost a decade.

4. What did Dorothy and Alice used to secretly consume in Dorothy's father's study?
(a) Alchohol.
(b) Tea.
(c) Meat.
(d) Sweets.

5. Why do William and the others not want to travel to New Netherlands and settle there?
(a) The land in New Netherlands was notoriously bad for growing things.
(b) They would be living in a Catholic land.
(c) They would be living in another Dutch colony, only this time along the Hudson River.
(d) God had told him in a dream not to move there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item in particular do the colonists have to sell much of in order to continue their journey due to their delays?

2. What do the barrels on the Speedwell contain that worries Alice about her sons' safety on the ship?

3. What makes Alice doubt that the reasons for tragedies are God's intentions?

4. Who is the King of England in Part I?

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

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