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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice hear people at the boarding house calling their group in Part III that offends her?
(a) Heathens.
(b) Puritans.
(c) Jews.
(d) Zealots.

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

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

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

5. How is Thomas Weston dressed when he stops off the boat in Part III?
(a) In plain work clothes.
(b) In finery and a ruffled color.
(c) In an army uniform.
(d) In a deacon's outfit.

6. What does Standish tell Billington is a punishable offense that he accuses Billington of committing in Part III?
(a) Having children out of wedlock.
(b) Trading on Christmas Day.
(c) Taking the name of the lord in vain.
(d) Trading with Indians.

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

8. What does John, Alice's stepson, say he wished he had not asked his mother for?
(a) To eat from a certain plate.
(b) To sing with her.
(c) To have her read him a bedtime story.
(d) To come to the colony with her.

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

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

11. What makes Alice doubt that the reasons for tragedies are God's intentions?
(a) The stillbirth of her own baby.
(b) Her mother's death.
(c) Her husband's death.
(d) The stillbirth of Dorothy's first baby.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eleanor Billington do in a last-ditch effort to save John Billington's life?

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

3. What do both Dorothy and Alice agree to in deciding to travel to the new world with their husbands?

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

5. What does John Billington think John Newcomen's first name is?

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