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

2. What does Alice throw to the floor at Eleanor Billington's house?
(a) An egg.
(b) A handkerchief.
(c) A hen.
(d) A bottle of milk.

3. What does Alice often tell her children to try to get them to behave?
(a) Santa will not come if you are naughty.
(b) God tests.
(c) God is watching.
(d) Naughty children get sick.

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

5. How does Alice refer to a woman's first period?
(a) The bleeding.
(b) The blessing.
(c) The wave.
(d) The marker of womanhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does William Bradford often do in the afternoons?

2. What did Dorothy and Alice used to secretly consume in Dorothy's father's study?

3. How had Billington signed his letter to the investors?

4. Which ship sprang a leak and could not sail for Plymouth when it should have?

5. What does John Billington tell John Newcomen upon their first meeting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Part I, how do the Billingtons view the leaders of Plymouth, and why?

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

5. What does Dorothy think when she contracts smallpox?

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

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

8. What is one of John Billington's biggest frustrations with the leaders of Plymouth?

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

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

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