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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Alice Bradford and the others give to the newcomers at the first dinner in Part IV?
(a) More food than they give themselves.
(b) Special wine from the cellars.
(c) Sweets with a lot of sugar.
(d) Candlesticks to take him.

2. Who pays for dinner to be served for Alice's group at the boardinghouse on the first night?
(a) John Carver.
(b) John Billington.
(c) Henry Jamison.
(d) William Bradford.

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 True Story of Plymouth.
(d) The New English Canaan.

4. What item in particular do the colonists have to sell much of in order to continue their journey due to their delays?
(a) Meat.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Spinach.
(d) Butter.

5. Where is John Billington kept while he awaits his murder trial?
(a) The stocks.
(b) The fort, the jail in the basement of the gathering house.
(c) Myles Standish's house.
(d) He is allowed to go home to his own house.

6. Why does John Billington insist on going back for Newcomen's body?
(a) He wants to prove to the others what he has done.
(b) It is not right to leave a dead body alone like that.
(c) He wants to make Myles Standish do the work of burying it.
(d) He wants to see if the priest will bless it.

7. What is one action the midwife tells Dorothy to try to increase her fertility?
(a) Taking the sap from a maple tree.
(b) Putting a tail feather in William's morning porridge.
(c) Eating more meat.
(d) Dancing during the full moon.

8. What does the Speedwell's master say is wrong about a half-day into their journey?
(a) The ship has hit an iceberg.
(b) The ship leaks.
(c) The ship has bad spirits aboard.
(d) The ship is short of sailors.

9. What does Dorothy's secret letter to her mother say?
(a) She wants help to come home.
(b) She is pregnant again.
(c) She wants to divorce William.
(d) She is very excited about her journey.

10. What kind of flowers had Dorothy wanted for her wedding bouquet?
(a) Hyacinths.
(b) Daisies.
(c) Roses.
(d) Lilies.

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

12. What were Alice's two strong feelings for Dorothy when the two were friends?
(a) Love and envy.
(b) Pity and love.
(c) Empathy and pity.
(d) Love and empathy.

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

14. What does Billington offer as proof of his funds in Part III?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Beaver pelts.
(c) Money.
(d) Beer.

15. Who are Alice's two children she wants to bring on the journey to the colony with her, despite saying she would leave them behind?
(a) James and Thomas.
(b) John and Henry.
(c) Constant and Henry.
(d) Constant and Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Dorothy give to Alice before they part for the last time?

4. Who does John Billington ask to speak with privately at the very start of Part III?

5. Where is the Speedwell forced to dock in an unscheduled stop?

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