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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. Who cries as a result of the native attack in Chapter 9?
(a) Richard.
(b) Master Wingfield.
(c) Samuel.
(d) James.

2. What is the name of the doctor on board the ship?
(a) Gabriel Archer.
(b) Thomas Wotton.
(c) Bartholomew Gosnold.
(d) John Laydon.

3. Which step is NOT involved in firing a musket?
(a) Cocking the match.
(b) Mixing plaster into the gunpowder.
(c) Priming the pan.
(d) Putting in the musket ball.

4. What does Captain Smith do while in chains in Chapter 5?
(a) He becomes ill.
(b) He shouts insults at the gentlemen.
(c) He writes.
(d) He sings.

5. How is Master Wingfield punished in Chapter 13?
(a) He is not punished.
(b) He is executed at the gallows.
(c) He is lashed.
(d) He is placed under arrest and put on the Discovery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the English seek a passage to the Orient?

2. What does the hunting expedition group do with the deceased man in Chapter 7?

3. Who have settled in Florida by the time the novel takes place?

4. When was Captain Smith made a prisoner before the instances in the novel?

5. What is a shallop?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Captain Smith arrested?

2. When an illness strikes the settlers in Chapter 12, what are some reasons given for it?

3. What illicit act is Samuel performing in the first chapter?

4. How does Samuel propose that they protect themselves from arrows in Chapter 10?

5. Who dies in the first attack by the natives and how?

6. What happens to the group of gentlemen on the island of Mona?

7. What do the settlers give the natives whom they first encounter in Virginia?

8. Why does the crew not stop in Florida?

9. What does Captain Smith propose to do while under arrest and why?

10. Why does Captain Smith and his party return from his excursion in Chapter 11?

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