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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. How close were the nearest English communities in America to the new colony at Plymouth?

2. Where did the Pilgrim's plan to build their houses?

3. What explorer did Massasoit attack when the explorer arrived one summer after the Indians had been attacked?

4. What governing document was drawn up before the Pilgrims went ashore?

5. Who was the Mayflower's governor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Standish's first expedition to look for a potential settlement site.

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. Describe the first venture ashore.

10. 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?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

The Pilgrims had refused the services of John Smith because they wanted no Stranger to tell them what to do. Instead, the Pilgrims, whether they realized it or not, came under the control of Squanto. Explain how Squanto manipulated the Pilgrims and their relationship with Massasoit.

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