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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. How did Billington first come to Plymouth?
(a) As a skilled carpenter.
(b) As an indentured servant.
(c) As a governor.
(d) As a church deacon.

2. How many children does Alice have in Part I?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

3. Who is Alice's newborn baby in Part I?
(a) Alan.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Jonathan.
(d) Thomas.

4. What is the word Eleanor and John Billington use most often, privately, to refer to the leaders at Plymouth?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Hypocrites.
(c) Heathens.
(d) Bretheren.

5. Why does Governor Bradford initially decline to give John Billington a fourth parcel of land?
(a) He left his indentured servitude early.
(b) His eldest son is not living with the family.
(c) He drank too much.
(d) He did not pay the price for the land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one reason some Plymouth colonists resent the Billingtons?

2. What does Eleanor Billington use to taunt Alice in Part II?

3. What did Standish teach the men of Plymouth to do before they all left Holland?

4. What do Alice and others in the colony say when a problem comes up?

5. What does Eleanor call Myles Standish to rile him up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does John Billington think it means to be "profane"?

4. Why is Dorothy not allowed to marry the man she really loves, a Dutch man?

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

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

7. What part of the day does John Billington love, and why?

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

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

10. What is John Newcomen's motivation in coming to Plymouth?

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