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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 do Alice and others in the colony say when a problem comes up?
(a) Fight through.
(b) Bully!
(c) What will be will be.
(d) God tests.

2. How does Alice Bradford refer to Dorothy Bradford?
(a) Her dearest consort.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her sister-in-law.
(d) Her soul mate.

3. What does Eleanor Billington use to taunt Alice in Part II?
(a) The fact that Dorothy used to be married to William Bradford, Alice's husband.
(b) The fact that Alice's husband is having an affair and everyone knows it.
(c) The fact that Alice is homely.
(d) The fact that Alice is a terrible cook.

4. What does William Bradford wait for in order to propose to Dorothy?
(a) His inheritance sum.
(b) His law degree.
(c) His older brother to marry first.
(d) His business partner to bless the union.

5. Whose house is Billington's directly across from?
(a) William Bradford's.
(b) Thomas Morton's.
(c) Myles Standish's.
(d) Thomas Weston's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice Bradford think Standish has been doing more of recently rather than fighting Indians?

2. What kind of wish does Alice think of "dominance" as?

3. What does Eleanor say she and John Billington got after 7 years of hard labor and service in Plymouth?

4. What is the word the colonists use when someone is bad-tempered?

5. What does Pastor Robinson say are Standish's main problems?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do most of the settlers feel about Captain Myles Standish?

3. What does Eleanor Billington say to Alice Bradford that gets Alice so upset she throws an egg?

4. What does Billington tell Newcomen when he first meets him?

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

6. What does Susanna's husband dislike about how she has decorated their house, and why?

7. Why is the lake that the Billingtons' son discovers named after him?

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

9. Why does William Bradford ask his wife Alice to pay a visit to Eleanor Billington in Part I?

10. What problem did William Bradford have about the way some colonists conducted themselves on Christmas Day one year?

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