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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the Pilgrims decide not to settle at Cold Harbor?
(a) It was too cold.
(b) The harbor was too shallow.
(c) There was no source of fresh water.
(d) There was not enough shelter.

2. Who had the Pilgrims considered asking to be their military leader?
(a) John Cabot.
(b) John Smith.
(c) Jacques Cartier.
(d) Champlain.

3. Where did the Pilgrim's plan to build their houses?
(a) Cole's Hill.
(b) In the forest.
(c) Near the salt marsh.
(d) Fort Hill.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was to be the governor of the new colony?

2. With the arrival of a ship in November of 1621, how many men and women were in Plymouth Colony?

3. With whom did the Pilgrim's first Indian visitor spend the night?

4. Where did Bradford go to worship when he became uneasy with the way God was worshipped in Austerfield?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What food did the passengers find on shore?

2. Who did the passengers choose as the leader for the colony?

3. Why were the Pokanokets in a desperate struggle to maintain their existence as a people?

4. Why, according to the author, do we like to know how it was "in the beginning"?

5. Why was it illegal for the Separatists to have their own church services?

6. Describe the first venture ashore.

7. Why did the Seaflower depart from New England bound for the Caribbean in 1676?

8. How did the Pilgrims' first Indian visitor, Samoset, learn to speak English?

9. In 1605, a map indicated between one thousand and two thousand people living along the shores where the Pilgrims planned to settle. Why were no Indians living along the shore now?

10. Where should the Pilgrims have settled rather than Plymouth?

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