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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 was the name of Eleanor Billington's deceased son?
(a) James.
(b) Henry.
(c) John.
(d) Thomas.

2. How do the women of Plymouth often address their husbands?
(a) Good Husband.
(b) Dear.
(c) Good Friend.
(d) Master.

3. What does William Bradford often do in the afternoons?
(a) Sing.
(b) Build fences.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Read scripture.

4. What does Alice dislike about Eleanor Billington's appearance?
(a) Her bonnet.
(b) Her shoes.
(c) Her messy hair.
(d) Her nails.

5. Who ends up marrying the woman Standish had originally wanted to marry?
(a) Master Bradford.
(b) Master Rudy.
(c) Master Billington.
(d) Master Allard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Myles Standish reveal to Eleanor Billington about the dinner for newcomers that she did not previously know?

2. Who is Eleanor Billington's surviving son?

3. What had Standish kept in mind when planning Plymouth?

4. Who does William Bradford not want at the dinner for the newcomers?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Standish tell Eleanor Billington at the start of Part II about the dinner for the newcomers that is big news?

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

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

8. What does Dorothy think when she contracts smallpox?

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

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

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