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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is the only time Alice is thankful to see Myles Standish with his gun ready?
(a) After she has heard the gunshot following the dinner for the newcomers.
(b) After John Billington has been shot.
(c) After William has been shot.
(d) After John, her stepson, has been shot.

2. What was a "cabin" on the Speedwell?
(a) A bed lifted off the ground.
(b) A board in the wall.
(c) An enclosed room.
(d) A crate.

3. Where does Alice live after getting back to Holland following her husband's death?
(a) With Dorothy's parents.
(b) With Johannes.
(c) With William.
(d) With her parents.

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

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

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

7. What does the indentured servant's rapist threaten to do if she tells anyone what he did to her?
(a) Kill her sister.
(b) Kill her mother.
(c) Kill her family's livestock.
(d) Kill all her friends.

8. Why does Billington think he should never have been required to serve his indentured servitude years to begin with?
(a) He had paid off the remainder of his servitude time.
(b) They had never landed in Virginia as the charter had dictated.
(c) He had served time in servitude before they left England already.
(d) His son had also contributed to his servitude debt.

9. What does John Billington tell the person he speaks with privately at the very beginning of Part III?
(a) He wants to leave the colony.
(b) He wants to start a new trade.
(c) He wants to purchase the land adjacent to his own.
(d) He wants his daughter to marry this person's son.

10. 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) Constant and Thomas.
(c) Constant and Henry.
(d) John and Henry.

11. How many jurors does William Bradford choose for John Billington's trial?
(a) 12.
(b) 13.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

12. Which of the following does Alice have to sell to get back to Holland?
(a) Her wedding ring.
(b) Her mother's best earrings.
(c) A musket.
(d) Her best dress.

13. What gesture of Eleanor Billington's does John Billington love?
(a) How she scrunches her eyebrows when she is mad.
(b) How she blows the stray curl out of her face.
(c) How she scratches her nose with her middle finger.
(d) How she ties her apron twice.

14. What letters does William Bradford write to his investors in London from the boarding house?
(a) They have decided to go to Boston instead of Plymouth because the soil there is better.
(b) Everything is going well with the journey.
(c) They are in dire financial straits.
(d) They have decided not to go to the colonies because the weather is too poor.

15. What does Thomas Weston tell John Billington his letter did among the investors?
(a) Made them realize Billington should be cast out of the colony and move to Boston instead.
(b) Made them realize Billington should be a priest.
(c) Caused a stir.
(d) Made them realize how unfairly he had been treated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the women go to wash the dishes after the dinner for the newcomers?

2. What does Elizabeth tell Alice may have been a factor in Dorothy's dour mood right before Dorothy died?

3. Where were Dorothy and the others originally intended to settle in the new world?

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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