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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pastor Robinson say are Standish's main problems?
(a) Pride and self-love.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Having the devil in him and being stingy.
(d) His temper and his lack of empathy.

2. What illness does Dorothy contract before her marriage?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Plague.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Cholera.

3. What did Standish teach the men of Plymouth to do before they all left Holland?
(a) Ride a horse.
(b) Build houses.
(c) Read and write.
(d) Shoot muskets and wield swords.

4. What does Myles Standish reveal to Eleanor Billington about the dinner for newcomers that she did not previously know?
(a) Queen Victoria would be there.
(b) Thomas Morton would be there.
(c) King James would be there.
(d) Thomas Weston would be there.

5. What is Dorothy's middle name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Anne.
(d) May.

6. Whose head sits on a stake above the meeting house in Plymouth?
(a) Riding Strong.
(b) Washakie.
(c) Manowit.
(d) Wituwamat.

7. What does Alice once overhear a shopkeeper saying about her looks?
(a) She looks Chinese.
(b) She looks Indian.
(c) She looks American.
(d) She looks Italian.

8. What is the word the colonists use when someone is bad-tempered?
(a) Mean.
(b) Stormy.
(c) Choleric.
(d) Nasty.

9. Which church did the Puritans separate from to form their own sect?
(a) The Methodist Church.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) The Lutheran Church.
(d) The Church of England.

10. What does Eleanor call Myles Standish to rile him up?
(a) Mister Standish.
(b) Just "Standish."
(c) Master Standish.
(d) Lady Standish.

11. What does Susanna decorate her door with?
(a) Daisies.
(b) Bird feathers.
(c) Swamp marsh.
(d) Grass.

12. Who does William Bradford not want at the dinner for the newcomers?
(a) The Billingtons.
(b) Thomas Weston.
(c) Myles Standish.
(d) Dorothy Birde.

13. Who ends up marrying the woman Standish had originally wanted to marry?
(a) Master Allard.
(b) Master Billington.
(c) Master Bradford.
(d) Master Rudy.

14. Why does Governor Bradford initially decline to give John Billington a fourth parcel of land?
(a) He drank too much.
(b) His eldest son is not living with the family.
(c) He left his indentured servitude early.
(d) He did not pay the price for the land.

15. Who is Eleanor Billington's surviving son?
(a) James.
(b) Henry.
(c) John.
(d) Francis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Johnson ask John Billington's help with in Part I?

2. Which Indian taunts Standish, giving Standish an excuse to slaughter them?

3. Which animals constantly prowled the perimeter of Plymouth?

4. What is one reason some Plymouth colonists resent the Billingtons?

5. What does William Bradford wait for in order to propose to Dorothy?

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