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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 Dorothy's parents make her wear for dinner with William Bradford?
(a) A communion dress.
(b) Pants and a blazer.
(c) A nightgown.
(d) Her own mother's second-best dress.

2. What is the colonists' nickname for Myles Standish?
(a) Captain Rogue.
(b) Captain Cook.
(c) Captain Knave.
(d) Captain Shrimp.

3. Which animals constantly prowled the perimeter of Plymouth?
(a) Wild boar.
(b) Elephants.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Wolves.

4. What community did Thomas Morton go to after leaving Plymouth?
(a) Hertforshire.
(b) Boston.
(c) Merrymount.
(d) Chesick.

5. What is the word the colonists use when someone is bad-tempered?
(a) Mean.
(b) Choleric.
(c) Nasty.
(d) Stormy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Alice have in Part I?

2. How long has Eleanor been out of her indentured servitude?

3. Who ends up marrying the woman Standish had originally wanted to marry?

4. What does Alice often tell her children to try to get them to behave?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dorothy think when she contracts smallpox?

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

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

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

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

6. What does William Bradford wait for in order to propose to Dorothy?

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

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

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

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

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