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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 the indentured servant's rapist threaten to do if she tells anyone what he did to her?
(a) Kill her family's livestock.
(b) Kill all her friends.
(c) Kill her mother.
(d) Kill her sister.

2. Who is John Billington very happy to see disembark from the ship in Part III?
(a) Henry Jamison.
(b) Thomas Weston.
(c) John Worthington.
(d) Thomas Morton.

3. What do Alice Bradford and the others give to the newcomers at the first dinner in Part IV?
(a) Candlesticks to take him.
(b) Sweets with a lot of sugar.
(c) More food than they give themselves.
(d) Special wine from the cellars.

4. What does Elizabeth tell Alice may have been a factor in Dorothy's dour mood right before Dorothy died?
(a) The death of her husband.
(b) The loss of another baby through miscarriage.
(c) The death of a boy named Jasper.
(d) The death of Dorothy's own mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dorothy's first living child?

2. What work does Thomas Morton tell John Billington he is currently writing in Part IV?

3. Why is William Bradford so angry at Thomas Weston in Part IV?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What considerations do the leaders of the colony weigh in figuring out how to handle the murder?

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

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

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