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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the military leader of the Pilgrims?

2. What ship appeared at Provincetown Harbor in November of 1621?

3. What was different about the trees in New England from those in England?

4. When did the Mayflower set sail for England?

5. What member of the Mayflower crew decided to stay in Plymouth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Weston betray the Pilgrims?

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

4. Describe how an Indian named Epenow persuaded his English abductors to return him to the New World.

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

6. What decision did passengers of the Mayflower have to make now that they were near land?

7. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the Plymouth colony and the Massachusetts Bay colony, and explain why or why not the Pilgrims should have settled at Boston rather than Plymouth.

Essay Topic 2

The author states that there are two possible responses to a world gripped by terror and contention. The first to get mad and get even, and the second is to use coercion rather than slaughter. Explain these two responses to an enemy and compare individuals in the book who used these responses. Does one way get better results? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the consequences of the war with Philip and why the victory might be considered a Pyrrhic victory for the English.

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