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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 157 - 208).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the barrels on the Speedwell contain that worries Alice about her sons' safety on the ship?
(a) Fertilizer.
(b) Bullets.
(c) Wine.
(d) Gunpowder.

2. What do John Billington and Thomas Morton do to excess at Billington's house in Part IV?
(a) Drink.
(b) Gamble.
(c) Sing.
(d) Eat.

3. What punishment does Eleanor Billington both fear and expect for her husband John?
(a) Death by hanging.
(b) Banishment.
(c) Indentured servitude.
(d) A life in prison sentence.

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

5. How old is John Billington in Part I?
(a) 60.
(b) 50.
(c) 25.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which ship sprang a leak and could not sail for Plymouth when it should have?

2. What does Dorothy's secret letter to her mother say?

3. What was the name of Eleanor Billington's deceased son?

4. What does Alice think when she hears a gunshot in Part IV?

5. What is one of the last images John Newcomen ever sees in his mind?

(see the answer key)

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