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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What work does Thomas Morton tell John Billington he is currently writing in Part IV?
(a) The Colonists' Downfall.
(b) The New English Canaan.
(c) The True Story of Plymouth.
(d) Devil at Plymouth.

2. Why do William and the others not want to travel to New Netherlands and settle there?
(a) They would be living in a Catholic land.
(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) The land in New Netherlands was notoriously bad for growing things.

3. What does John Billington think John Newcomen's first name is?
(a) Jim.
(b) Robert.
(c) Francis.
(d) Henry.

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

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

6. What does John Newcomen ask Myles Standish for after his first meeting with John Billington?
(a) Training to shoot his musket.
(b) A different plot of land.
(c) A new gun.
(d) Money to get started.

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

8. What does Alice tell her stepson John in the beginning of Part IV?
(a) Dorothy, his mother, loved him very much.
(b) Dorothy, his mother, was killed by Indians.
(c) Dorothy, his mother, killed herself.
(d) Dorothy, his mother, was a spirit of the land now.

9. What does Weston repeatedly ask Billington in Part IV?
(a) If Billington wants to become a priest.
(b) If Billington wants to give up his land.
(c) If Billington wants to trade with the Indians.
(d) If Billington wants to go back to London with Weston.

10. What does Alice consider is always a threat from nature in Part IV?
(a) The extreme heat.
(b) The poisonous plants.
(c) The wolf packs.
(d) The poisoned streams.

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

12. What do the Puritans believe asking for anything earthly will bring about?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) A loss of money.
(c) Joy.
(d) God's wrath.

13. Which ship was the Speedwell to meet with in England to make the journey to the colonies together?
(a) The Sandy Waves.
(b) The Mayflower.
(c) The Constant.
(d) The Gifte.

14. Why is William Bradford so angry at Thomas Weston in Part IV?
(a) For being so late arriving.
(b) For letting Thomas Morton back into the colony.
(c) For bringing a priest on the ship.
(d) For bringing too many new colonists.

15. What does Eleanor Billington say to John Billington when they hear the rest of the colonists arriving to where Newcomen's body lies?
(a) Here come the savages.
(b) Beg for mercy.
(c) Brace yourself.
(d) Run as fast as you can!

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Thomas Weston tell John Billington his letter did among the investors?

3. What gesture of Eleanor Billington's does John Billington love?

4. What does Billington call Weston in front of the other colonists that makes Weston very angry?

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

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