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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 4, Beaten with Their Own Rod.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Indian tribe did the Pilgrims befriend?
(a) Narragansetts.
(b) Wapanoags.
(c) Pocasset
(d) Awashonks.

2. What event, according to the author, do most Americans associate with the birth of the United States?
(a) Voyage of the Mayflower.
(b) The Mayflower Compact.
(c) The first Thanksgiving.
(d) The Revolutionary War.

3. Where did the most powerful Native leader in the region live?
(a) About 30 miles away.
(b) About 60 miles southwest of Provincetown Harbor.
(c) About 20 miles southwest of Cape Cod.
(d) On an island near the Pilgrims.

4. Who was the Mayflower's governor?
(a) John Carver.
(b) William Bradford.
(c) Christopher Martin.
(d) John Robinson.

5. What was the author researching when he decided to learn more about the Pilgrims?
(a) Plymouth Colony.
(b) Nantucket Island.
(c) Cape Cod.
(d) Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did William Bradford marry?

2. What did Standish and the other men find on a high shore side hill?

3. How close were the nearest English communities in America to the new colony at Plymouth?

4. When did the Pilgrims sail to the New World in search of religious freedom?

5. What treacherous area of water did the Mayflower encounter after 1 p.m. as they approached the New World?

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