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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many sachems came on September 13 to sign a treaty professing their loyalty to King James?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 22.
(d) 9.

2. How old was the most powerful Native leader in the region?
(a) 48.
(b) 27.
(c) 52.
(d) 35.

3. Who did William Bradford marry?
(a) Dorothy May.
(b) Elizabeth Brewster.
(c) Susanna White.
(d) Delphina Smythe.

4. What did the Pokanokets call their creator god?
(a) Hobbamock.
(b) Cheepi.
(c) Kietan.
(d) Tisquantum.

5. What member of the Mayflower crew decided to stay in Plymouth?
(a) John Clark.
(b) Christopher Jones.
(c) John Alden.
(d) Robert Coppin.

6. When did the Pilgrims sail to the New World in search of religious freedom?
(a) 1710.
(b) 1492.
(c) 1562.
(d) 1620.

7. What were the holes along the trail that Winslow and Hopkins traveled in July of 1621?
(a) Mole holes.
(b) Memory holes.
(c) Storage pits.
(d) Shallow graves.

8. At the end of Chapter 7, who was launching a plan to become the most powerful Indian leader in New England?
(a) Hobbamock.
(b) Canacum.
(c) Massasoit.
(d) Squanto.

9. Where did Bradford go to worship when he became uneasy with the way God was worshipped in Austerfield?
(a) Grimsby.
(b) Lincolnshire.
(c) Leiden.
(d) Scrooby.

10. What is the name of the war that occurred in 1675?
(a) Wapanoags' War.
(b) French and Indian War.
(c) King Philip's War.
(d) War of the English.

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

12. Whose son came to Plymouth on the ship that arrived late in 1621?
(a) Standish's son.
(b) The Winslow's son.
(c) The Bradfords' son.
(d) The Brewsters' son.

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

14. What treacherous area of water did the Mayflower encounter after 1 p.m. as they approached the New World?
(a) A whirlpool.
(b) Cape Cod shoals.
(c) Pollack Rip.
(d) Back side breakers.

15. How old was Bradford when he became uneasy with the way in which God was worshipped in Austerfield?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 32.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the meaning of Squanto's and Hobbamock's names?

2. What is the title of an Indian leader?

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

4. How many men signed the agreement before the Mayflower landed?

5. What English explorer sailed from Maine in a small open boat?

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