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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. Where were Dorothy and the others originally intended to settle in the new world?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New York.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Virginia.

2. What do John Billington and Thomas Morton do to excess at Billington's house in Part IV?
(a) Sing.
(b) Eat.
(c) Gamble.
(d) Drink.

3. What makes Alice doubt that the reasons for tragedies are God's intentions?
(a) The stillbirth of her own baby.
(b) Her mother's death.
(c) The stillbirth of Dorothy's first baby.
(d) Her husband's death.

4. What letters does William Bradford write to his investors in London from the boarding house?
(a) Everything is going well with the journey.
(b) They have decided to go to Boston instead of Plymouth because the soil there is better.
(c) They have decided not to go to the colonies because the weather is too poor.
(d) They are in dire financial straits.

5. What is one action the midwife tells Dorothy to try to increase her fertility?
(a) Dancing during the full moon.
(b) Taking the sap from a maple tree.
(c) Putting a tail feather in William's morning porridge.
(d) Eating more meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Alice leave Joseph sleeping when she goes to wash dishes in Part IV?

2. What does Billington call Weston in front of the other colonists that makes Weston very angry?

3. What does Alice hear people at the boarding house calling their group in Part III that offends her?

4. Why do William and the others not want to travel to New Netherlands and settle there?

5. What does John Billington tell the person he speaks with privately at the very beginning of Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to a nameless young girl in Part III?

2. What is William Bradford angry with Thomas Weston about in Part IV?

3. What opinion does William eventually form of the ship's captain?

4. What does Alice Bradford feel it is important to tell Dorothy's and William's son when she first meets him in Part IV?

5. What kind of story is Thomas Morton writing in Part IV?

6. What does Dorothy ask her mother in the secret letter she sends from Southampton?

7. How are the would-be settlers treated at the port in England when they are stuck there while waiting for the ship's repairs?

8. How does Alice get back to Holland as a widow with no money?

9. What does Billington say when he confronts Thomas Weston in Part IV?

10. What crosses Alice's path on her way to the dock in Part III that she takes as an ill omen?

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