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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 does John Billington tell John Newcomen upon their first meeting?
(a) Newcomen is building on Billington's land.
(b) Newcomen is milking Billington's cow.
(c) Newcomen might be friends with Billington's son.
(d) The leaders of Plymouth are very fair.

2. What does John Billington tell Eleanor he is taking his gun to shoot in Part IV?
(a) Bears.
(b) Deer.
(c) Moose.
(d) Wolves.

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

4. Where were Dorothy and the others originally intended to settle in the new world?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New York.

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 another Dutch colony, only this time along the Hudson River.
(c) God had told him in a dream not to move there.
(d) They would be living in a Catholic land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a "cabin" on the Speedwell?

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

3. Who is the man given land right next to the Billingtons' land?

4. What does Billington offer as proof of his funds in Part III?

5. Which country does Alice come to Plymouth from?

(see the answer key)

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