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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. What event, according to the author, do most Americans associate with the birth of the United States?
(a) The Mayflower Compact.
(b) Voyage of the Mayflower.
(c) The first Thanksgiving.
(d) The Revolutionary War.

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

3. What day did the Pilgrims erect the frame of the first house?
(a) December 25.
(b) January 1.
(c) December 26.
(d) December 1.

4. When did the Mayflower arrive at Provincetown Harbor?
(a) November 11.
(b) November 2.
(c) December 1.
(d) October 30.

5. When was the "First Thanksgiving" most likely held?
(a) December.
(b) Late September or early October.
(c) November.
(d) August.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of an ominous Pokanokets spirit of darkness?

2. What Italian explorer had come to Narragansett Bay as early as 1524?

3. Who sent a scathing letter with the ship that arrived in November, 1621?

4. What were the holes along the trail that Winslow and Hopkins traveled in July of 1621?

5. What did the Pilgrims wish they could catch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hobbamock was a pniese. What is a pniese?

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

3. How did the Pilgrims attempt to make a show of strength to the Indians?

4. How did the master of the Speedwell work against the Pilgrims?

5. Why do some people think that Dorothy Bradford may have committed suicide?

6. Describe the first venture ashore.

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

8. How did some of the Indians' oldest people describe the first sight of a European sailing vessel?

9. How did Weston betray the Pilgrims?

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

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