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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 William Bradford's occupation?

2. What did Edward Winslow do on May 12?

3. What was the meaning of Squanto's and Hobbamock's names?

4. Who is the carpenter turned Indian fighter that the author will focus on in the book?

5. What happened to Squanto at the end of Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did the future site of Pymouth Plantation come do well recommended?

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author states that when violence and fear grip a society, it is easy to demonize the enemy as justification for violent actions. Discuss how the Pilgrims and/or the Indians justified violence by demonizing one another throughout the many conflicts that occurred between the groups.

Essay Topic 2

Although King Philip's War became a racial war, it was also caused by greed. Explain how greed led Philip and the English into the conflict and what gain the parties expected to obtain from the conflict.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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