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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. How does Dorothy feel about moving to the colonies?
(a) She is indifferent about going.
(b) She will go, but only after her parents have passed away.
(c) She is excited to go.
(d) She does not want to go.

2. What does John, Alice's stepson, say he wished he had not asked his mother for?
(a) To have her read him a bedtime story.
(b) To sing with her.
(c) To eat from a certain plate.
(d) To come to the colony with her.

3. Why does John Billington insist on going back for Newcomen's body?
(a) It is not right to leave a dead body alone like that.
(b) He wants to make Myles Standish do the work of burying it.
(c) He wants to see if the priest will bless it.
(d) He wants to prove to the others what he has done.

4. Which of the following does Alice have to sell to get back to Holland?
(a) Her wedding ring.
(b) A musket.
(c) Her best dress.
(d) Her mother's best earrings.

5. What does John Billington tell Eleanor he is taking his gun to shoot in Part IV?
(a) Bears.
(b) Deer.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Moose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Weston say he will not have Billington killed after all in Part IV?

2. What does Alice think when she hears a gunshot in Part IV?

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

4. Who rapes a nameless indentured servant in Part III?

5. Who are Alice's two children she wants to bring on the journey to the colony with her, despite saying she would leave them behind?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What promise does Alice Bradford make to Dorothy in Part III?

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

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

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

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

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

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