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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. At the end of Chapter 7, who was launching a plan to become the most powerful Indian leader in New England?

2. What did the Pokanokets call their creator god?

3. What did Bradford learn at the end of Chapter 4?

4. When was the "First Thanksgiving" most likely held?

5. What happened in Jamestown in the spring of 1621?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the author state that the story about the Pilgrims changes from the story we know to the story that we need to know?

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

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

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

6. What food did the passengers find on shore?

7. Why were the Pilgrims familiar with turkeys?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 3, a Frenchmen told his Indian captors that "God was angry with them for their wickedness, and would destroy them and give their country to another people." Argue whether King Philip's war was or was not God's vengeance on the Indians.

Essay Topic 2

The Pilgrims left England because of intolerant attitudes toward their religious beliefs. How did the Pilgrims have the same type of intolerant attitude toward the Strangers and others when they settled in the New World?

Essay Topic 3

Some say that the Pilgrims' passion and fervor that enabled them to survive those first grim years threatened to darken into a "mean-spirited fanaticism." Using examples from the book, argue whether you think the Pilgrims did or did not become mean-spirited fanatics.

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