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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. What do John Billington and Thomas Morton do to excess at Billington's house in Part IV?

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

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

5. What alcohol do the newcomers and the colonists mostly drink?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does John Billington shoot Newcomen?

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do the settlers in general, besides the Billingtons, view Myles Standish and his actions at Plymouth? What does Standish's approach and behavior symbolize about the entire colony? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the major reasons for Alice Bradford's guilt over the fate of her friend Dorothy, and how does Alice manage and deal with this guilt throughout her life? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Nesbit foreshadow the truth of what really happened to Dorothy on the Mayflower throughout the book, and what was your reaction when she finally reveals the truth of Dorothy's death? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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