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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 many jurors does William Bradford choose for John Billington's trial?
(a) 13.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

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

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

4. What does Standish tell Billington is a punishable offense that he accuses Billington of committing in Part III?
(a) Trading on Christmas Day.
(b) Taking the name of the lord in vain.
(c) Having children out of wedlock.
(d) Trading with Indians.

5. Why does Eleanor Billington hope the colony leaders will pardon John Billington for the murder?
(a) Alice will convince them to be compassionate.
(b) They are actually merciful.
(c) They will not want blood on their own hands.
(d) They will be attacked by the Indians if they kill one of their own.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Dorothy and the others originally intended to settle in the new world?

2. Who does Eleanor Billington say was the first murdered in the colony?

3. Who goes with Alice to wash dishes after the newcomers' dinner in Part IV?

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

5. Who does John Billington ask to speak with privately at the very start of Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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