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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. How many people died each day in February and March, 1621?
(a) One or two.
(b) One.
(c) Two or three.
(d) Four or five.

2. For how many days had the Mayflower blundered through storms and headwinds before reaching the New World?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 45 days.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 65 days.

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

4. What happened to the Indians who used to live at Plymouth?
(a) Moved to better hunting grounds.
(b) Killed in a war.
(c) Moved North.
(d) Died of plague.

5. Why did the Mayflower not return to England after a settlement site was found?
(a) The weather was bad.
(b) The ship needed the repairs.
(c) Many crew members were sick.
(d) The ship needed to stock more provisions for the return voyage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the most powerful Native leader in the region live?

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

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

4. What was William Bradford's occupation?

5. What sachem tried to have Squanto killed in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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