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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 did Bradford learn at the end of Chapter 4?

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

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

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

5. How many sachems came on September 13 to sign a treaty professing their loyalty to King James?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened to the ship, the Fortune?

4. 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?

5. Why did the Separatists decide to leave Amsterdam?

6. What disparity did Quadequina notice after the treaty between the Indians and the Pilgrims was signed?

7. How did Thomas Hunt damage Indian-English relations in New England for decades?

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

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

10. Describe the first venture ashore.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 8, Pastor John Robinson writes about the ruffling course that the Pilgrims began with the Wessagusett raid. Argue whether Robinson's words proved to be prophetic or did not prove to be prophetic given the ultimate course of New England's history.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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