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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 9, A Ruffling Course.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was constructed on the high hill?
(a) Several houses.
(b) A common house.
(c) A storehouse.
(d) A platform to mount cannons.

2. What did the Pokanokets call their creator god?
(a) Tisquantum.
(b) Hobbamock.
(c) Cheepi.
(d) Kietan.

3. Why was Massasoit sick?
(a) Probably measles.
(b) Someone had tried to poison him.
(c) Probably typhus.
(d) Food poisoning.

4. How close to Wessagussett colony was an Indian settlement?
(a) 15 miles away.
(b) Right beside the colony.
(c) 25 miles away.
(d) 40 miles away.

5. Why did many Indians die in the summer of 1623?
(a) They were not able to plant crops.
(b) Because of a measles epidemic.
(c) Because of war.
(d) Because of disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the colonists at Wessagussett have to do in order to seek food?

2. Who wrote a book about the voyage of the Mayflower?

3. Why did the Mayflower not return to England after a settlement site was found?

4. Who did William Bradford marry?

5. What was a third name for the spirit that Massasoit's people associated with death, night, and the bitter northeast wind?

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