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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who was to be the governor of the new colony?
(a) William Bradford.
(b) John Carver.
(c) John Howland.
(d) Robert Cushman.
2. Which explorer drew a map of the area in 1605?
(a) Verrazano.
(b) Champlain.
(c) Thomas Dermer.
(d) John Smith.
3. Who had the Pilgrims considered asking to be their military leader?
(a) Jacques Cartier.
(b) John Cabot.
(c) Champlain.
(d) John Smith.
4. For how many days had the Mayflower blundered through storms and headwinds before reaching the New World?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 65 days.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 45 days.
5. What did Standish and the other men find on a high shore side hill?
(a) Indian pottery.
(b) Items from a French shipwreck.
(c) Dried Indian corn.
(d) Graves.
6. What member of the Mayflower crew decided to stay in Plymouth?
(a) Robert Coppin.
(b) John Alden.
(c) Christopher Jones.
(d) John Clark.
7. Where did the most powerful Native leader in the region live?
(a) About 60 miles southwest of Provincetown Harbor.
(b) On an island near the Pilgrims.
(c) About 30 miles away.
(d) About 20 miles southwest of Cape Cod.
8. What evidence that the Indians had lived at Plymouth remained?
(a) Bits of jewelry.
(b) Cooking pots.
(c) Old fire pits.
(d) Skulls and bones.
9. What did Francis Billington claim to see when he climbed a tree on Fort Hill?
(a) A great sea.
(b) A large river.
(c) An Indian raiding party.
(d) Apple trees.
10. By spring 1621, how many of those who had originally arrive at Provincetown had died?
(a) 52.
(b) 24.
(c) 10.
(d) 72.
11. What was Massasoit's first impulse to do with the English?
(a) Kill them.
(b) Curse them.
(c) Make an alliance with them.
(d) Trade with them.
12. Who was the Manomet sachem?
(a) Aspinet.
(b) Massasoit.
(c) Iyanough.
(d) Canacum.
13. What book tells about the voyage of the Mayflower?
(a) Of Plymouth Plantation.
(b) Plymouth Colony and the Mayflower.
(c) In the Hands of a Mighty God.
(d) The Mayflower Saga.
14. When did the Mayflower set sail for England?
(a) May 1.
(b) March 16.
(c) April 5.
(d) June 17.
15. What happened after more than fifty years of peace between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans?
(a) Deadly war.
(b) Forts were built for protection.
(c) A trading post was established.
(d) A permanent peace agreement.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who told the Pilgrims that Squanto was plotting against them?
2. In the 1600s, who tried to navigate the same treacherous waters that the Mayflower encountered?
3. Who did William Bradford marry?
4. Why did Bradford not execute Squanto for his role in the plot to overthrow Massasoit?
5. How many men did not sign the agreement before the Mayflower landed?
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