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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. The Pilgrims had their first Indian visitor in Chapter 6. How was he armed?
(a) With a musket.
(b) With a bow and two arrows.
(c) With a bow and a knife.
(d) With a knife.

2. What explorer did Massasoit attack when the explorer arrived one summer after the Indians had been attacked?
(a) Champlain.
(b) John Smith.
(c) Verazzano.
(d) Thomas Dermer.

3. What did Standish and the other men find on a high shore side hill?
(a) Graves.
(b) Items from a French shipwreck.
(c) Indian pottery.
(d) Dried Indian corn.

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

5. Who was the most powerful Native leader in the region?
(a) Sachem.
(b) Hobamock.
(c) Massasoit.
(d) Squanto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What formal and binding agreement was signed before the passengers went ashore?

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

3. Where did Jones decide they were near as the Mayflower headed toward shore?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Pilgrims decide to build a wall around their community?

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

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

4. Why were passengers in an uproar when they learned they were headed to New England rather than the Hudson River?

5. What happened to the ship, the Fortune?

6. Why did Massasoit want Squanto to die in Chapter 8?

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

8. What one clue did Bradford leave that might indicate how he felt about the death of his wife?

9. Why wasn't the terrain surrounding Plymouth a primeval forest?

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

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