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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 Alice throw to the floor at Eleanor Billington's house?
(a) A bottle of milk.
(b) A hen.
(c) An egg.
(d) A handkerchief.

2. What is the word Eleanor and John Billington use most often, privately, to refer to the leaders at Plymouth?
(a) Heathens.
(b) Hypocrites.
(c) Bretheren.
(d) Soldiers.

3. What work does Thomas Morton tell John Billington he is currently writing in Part IV?
(a) The Colonists' Downfall.
(b) Devil at Plymouth.
(c) The New English Canaan.
(d) The True Story of Plymouth.

4. What had Standish kept in mind when planning Plymouth?
(a) What the fishing in the bay would be like.
(b) Its soil.
(c) How many wolves lived in the area.
(d) How it could be defended.

5. What does Eleanor Billington tell the crowd right after Newcomen's murder?
(a) Newcomen had actually shot himself accidentally.
(b) Myles Standish committed the murder.
(c) It is not the first murder in the colony.
(d) Newcomen was murdered by Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What letters does William Bradford write to his investors in London from the boarding house?

2. How did Billington first come to Plymouth?

3. What gesture of Eleanor Billington's does John Billington love?

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

5. What does the Speedwell's master say is wrong about a half-day into their journey?

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