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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 Alice consider is always a threat from nature in Part IV?
(a) The wolf packs.
(b) The poisoned streams.
(c) The poisonous plants.
(d) The extreme heat.

2. Why do William and the others not want to travel to New Netherlands and settle there?
(a) They would be living in another Dutch colony, only this time along the Hudson River.
(b) The land in New Netherlands was notoriously bad for growing things.
(c) God had told him in a dream not to move there.
(d) They would be living in a Catholic land.

3. Who goes with Alice to wash dishes after the newcomers' dinner in Part IV?
(a) Eleanor.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Mary.
(d) Constance.

4. What does Dorothy give to Alice before they part for the last time?
(a) Her ring.
(b) Her favorite book.
(c) Her handkerchief.
(d) Her favorite pen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Dorothy's first-born child?

2. What punishment does Eleanor Billington both fear and expect for her husband John?

3. What letters does William Bradford write to his investors in London from the boarding house?

4. What does Thomas Weston tell John Billington his letter did among the investors?

5. Who is John Billington very happy to see disembark from the ship in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Alice decide not to go on the journey to Plymouth with Dorothy and the others?

2. What does Plymouth do with some of its dead in the worst of its first winter?

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

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

5. Who arrives on the ship with the newcomers and how does John Billington feel about this person?

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

7. What problems start on the journey to the new world almost immediately?

8. What major issue causes a rift between Dorothy and Alice in Part III?

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

10. How does Eleanor react when Billington tells her about his crime?

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