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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alice step upon on her way to the Mayflower to see Dorothy off?
(a) A snake.
(b) A toad.
(c) A cat's tail.
(d) A cockroach.

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

3. Where is the Speedwell forced to dock in an unscheduled stop?
(a) Southampton.
(b) Eglington.
(c) Wiltfordshire.
(d) Chicory.

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

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

6. Who is Dorothy's first living child?
(a) Henry.
(b) James.
(c) John.
(d) Thomas.

7. What is one of the last images John Newcomen ever sees in his mind?
(a) His son.
(b) Eugenia.
(c) His little brother.
(d) His stepfather.

8. How does the Speedwell's master eventually tell the settlers they will have to travel to the colony?
(a) By train.
(b) They have to cancel their whole trip for all the settlers.
(c) On the Mayflower.
(d) By airplane.

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

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

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

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

13. What does Alice think when she hears a gunshot in Part IV?
(a) It is likely a Spanish invasion.
(b) It is likely Indian attack.
(c) It is likely settlers fighting.
(d) It is like an invasion of white men from another colony.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is John Billington very happy to see disembark from the ship in Part III?

3. What work does Thomas Morton tell John Billington he is currently writing in Part IV?

4. Why does Billington think he should never have been required to serve his indentured servitude years to begin with?

5. How is Thomas Weston dressed when he stops off the boat in Part III?

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