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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Speedwell's master eventually tell the settlers they will have to travel to the colony?

2. Where is John Billington kept while he awaits his murder trial?

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

4. Who are the Dutch experiencing tense relations with in Part III?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does John Billington shoot Newcomen?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which characters or and/or situations in this novel depict corruption and unfairness the most acutely? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Before striking out for the new world, why are people like Alice, Dorothy, and William Bradford in Holland? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the novel, and in much older age, how do both Eleanor Billington and Alice Bradford seem to view both the future and the past of Plymouth? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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