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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 'tween deck smell like?
(a) Urine and vomit.
(b) Human feces.
(c) Sweat.
(d) Master Wingfield's perfume.

2. What was the name of the French colony in Florida?
(a) Fort Caroline.
(b) Fort Lauderdale.
(c) Fort Oglethorpe.
(d) Fort Orlando.

3. What does Reverend Hunt tell Samuel about forgiveness after the death of one of their party?
(a) He must learn to forgive himself.
(b) It is futile.
(c) It comes from God without prayer.
(d) He must pray for it incessantly if he expects to earn it.

4. Who arrives at the orphanage door to take Samuel to the New World?
(a) Captain Newport.
(b) Captain Smith.
(c) Reverend Hunt.
(d) Samuel's mother.

5. Who have settled in Florida by the time the novel takes place?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The Chinese.
(c) The colonists from Roanoke.
(d) The Dutch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Smith tell Samuel about anger in Chapter 8?

2. What do the natives NOT ask for from the settlers in Chapter 13?

3. What does Samuel help build in Chapter 14?

4. What happens to Samuel when he steals from the shopkeeper in Chapter 1?

5. To whom did Samuel's armor once belong?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the crew not stop in Florida?

2. On what grounds do the gentlemen arrest Captain Smith in Chapter 15?

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

4. How is Captain Smith released from imprisonment?

5. How old is Samuel when he boards the Susan Constant at the outset of the novel?

6. Why is Captain Smith arrested?

7. What happens to Captain Smith when he is placed under arrest?

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

9. Where have all the gentlemen gone at the end of Chapter 14?

10. Why was Samuel living in an orphanage?

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