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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. Who is Alice's newborn baby in Part I?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Alan.
(d) Jonathan.
2. How had Billington signed his letter to the investors?
(a) The Ill-Treated Servant.
(b) The Carpenter.
(c) The Knave.
(d) The King.
3. What does John Billington do in Part I that William Bradford calls a transgression?
(a) Makes romantic advances towards Alice.
(b) Sends his son for an agnostic education.
(c) Steals food.
(d) Writes to the investors complaining of unfair treatment.
4. Who are Alice's good friends in Plymouth?
(a) Susanna and Elizabeth.
(b) Elizabeth and Mary.
(c) Mercy and Eleanor.
(d) Eleanor and Susanna.
5. How does Alice refer to a woman's first period?
(a) The blessing.
(b) The marker of womanhood.
(c) The bleeding.
(d) The wave.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the women of Plymouth privately think of Standish?
2. Why do some of the colonists at Plymouth decline to celebrate Christmas?
3. Who does William ask Alice to visit in Part I?
4. What does William Bradford often do in the afternoons?
5. What does Alice often tell her children to try to get them to behave?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is William Bradford upset about the impending investors' visit to the colony?
2. What does the young Johnson man ask John Billington for help with in Part I, and what is Billington's response?
3. What did John Billington's letter to the colony's investors say?
4. What does Dorothy think when she contracts smallpox?
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 does John Billington think it means to be "profane"?
7. Why does William Bradford ask his wife Alice to pay a visit to Eleanor Billington in Part I?
8. What does William Bradford wait for in order to propose to Dorothy?
9. What is one of John Billington's biggest frustrations with the leaders of Plymouth?
10. Why is Dorothy not allowed to marry the man she really loves, a Dutch man?
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