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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Standish teach the men of Plymouth to do before they all left Holland?
(a) Read and write.
(b) Ride a horse.
(c) Build houses.
(d) Shoot muskets and wield swords.

2. What does Johannes do after saying goodbye to Dorothy?
(a) Becomes a priest.
(b) Becomes a merchant marine.
(c) Joins the Dutch military.
(d) Becomes a carpenter.

3. What does Myles Standish reveal to Eleanor Billington about the dinner for newcomers that she did not previously know?
(a) Thomas Weston would be there.
(b) King James would be there.
(c) Queen Victoria would be there.
(d) Thomas Morton would be there.

4. Who does William Bradford not want at the dinner for the newcomers?
(a) Myles Standish.
(b) The Billingtons.
(c) Dorothy Birde.
(d) Thomas Weston.

5. What had Standish kept in mind when planning Plymouth?
(a) How many wolves lived in the area.
(b) Its soil.
(c) How it could be defended.
(d) What the fishing in the bay would be like.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pastor Robinson tell William Bradford in his letter about once there has been bloodshed?

2. What is the word Eleanor and John Billington use most often, privately, to refer to the leaders at Plymouth?

3. Whose house is Billington's directly across from?

4. Who is the man given land right next to the Billingtons' land?

5. Where has Alice's sister traveled to live since having arrived in Plymouth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What grief have John and Eleanor Billington recently suffered?

2. Who is one of John Billington's closest friends, and what do the two have in common?

3. What is Standish's history with the Indians?

4. Why did William used to scold Dorothy for the treatment of their son John?

5. What did John Billington's letter to the colony's investors say?

6. What does Pastor Robinson tell Dorothy about her desires?

7. What does the young Johnson man ask John Billington for help with in Part I, and what is Billington's response?

8. How does Alice Bradford really feel about Eleanor Billington?

9. What is one resource that is always scarce in Plymouth and that the women are expected to take less of than the men?

10. What does Dorothy think when she contracts smallpox?

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