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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 7, Thanksgiving.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Massasoit's first impulse to do with the English?
(a) Make an alliance with them.
(b) Curse them.
(c) Kill them.
(d) Trade with them.

3. How many people were on board the Mayflower?
(a) 134.
(b) 102.
(c) 104.
(d) 202.

4. How close were the nearest English communities in America to the new colony at Plymouth?
(a) More than 500 miles.
(b) Over 3,000 miles.
(c) About 1,000 miles.
(d) About 100 miles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the carpenter turned Indian fighter that the author will focus on in the book?

2. Who was the Mayflower's governor?

3. What tradition began with the women of the Mayflower?

4. What had the Pilgrims brought on the Mayflower to plant in the spring?

5. By spring 1621, how many of those who had originally arrive at Provincetown had died?

(see the answer key)

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