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

2. What does Eleanor Billington say to John Billington when they hear the rest of the colonists arriving to where Newcomen's body lies?
(a) Run as fast as you can!
(b) Here come the savages.
(c) Beg for mercy.
(d) Brace yourself.

3. What gesture of Eleanor Billington's does John Billington love?
(a) How she ties her apron twice.
(b) How she blows the stray curl out of her face.
(c) How she scratches her nose with her middle finger.
(d) How she scrunches her eyebrows when she is mad.

4. What does John Newcomen ask Myles Standish for after his first meeting with John Billington?
(a) Money to get started.
(b) Training to shoot his musket.
(c) A new gun.
(d) A different plot of land.

5. What work does Thomas Morton tell John Billington he is currently writing in Part IV?
(a) Devil at Plymouth.
(b) The True Story of Plymouth.
(c) The New English Canaan.
(d) The Colonists' Downfall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John, Alice's stepson, say he was told about his mother's death?

2. What does John Billington think John Newcomen's first name is?

3. Who is Dorothy's first living child?

4. Who does Morton tell the Billingtons is keeping two Indians captive in London?

5. What does Susanna White commission to bring to the colony that the others view as extravagant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What challenges and struggles does Dorothy have before she ever leaves for Plymouth?

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

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

4. What do Alice and Elizabeth hear in Part IV at the brook that sends them running back to the meeting house?

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

6. What is Eleanor Billington worried about her husband John and Thomas Morton doing in Part IV?

7. What fear does Alice develop about her husband for the first time while they are waiting for the ship's repairs?

8. What does Standish ask Billington when Billington shows him the beaver pelts he means to use to buy his last piece of land?

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

10. What problem does William Bradford have with the flowers Dorothy wants for her wedding bouquet?

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