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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Chapter 16, The Better Side of the Hedge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did some Massachusetts authorities consider building when conditions became so desperate and winter was approaching?
(a) A palisade wall.
(b) A fort.
(c) Barracks.
(d) Cannon platforms.

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

3. What was a third name for the spirit that Massasoit's people associated with death, night, and the bitter northeast wind?
(a) Kietan.
(b) Hobbamock.
(c) Tisquantum.
(d) Cheepi.

4. What friendly tribe had their wigwams burned by Moseley?
(a) Narragansett.
(b) Penacooks.
(c) Pokanoket.
(d) Praying Indians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group of Indians became the first in New England to disown Philip?

2. When the Sakonets wished to stay out of the conflict, where did Bradford ask them to go?

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

4. How much was the cargo worth that the Pilgrims sent back on the Fortune?

5. In the 1600s, who tried to navigate the same treacherous waters that the Mayflower encountered?

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