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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item(s) had been confiscated by the ship's crew?
(a) Water.
(b) Fish.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Beer.

2. The country had recently been severely affected by which of the following?
(a) Floods.
(b) War.
(c) Famine.
(d) Earthquakes.

3. What was the name of the high ranking Indian that approached the group for the first time?
(a) Squanto.
(b) Pocahontas.
(c) Samoset.
(d) Massasoit.

4. Some of the "heathens'" traditions were adopted as a sign of ____.
(a) Scorn.
(b) Resolution.
(c) Appeasment.
(d) Pity.

5. Bradford claims that the treatment of those that do not obey the church is as evil as the persecution of early ____.
(a) Prophets.
(b) Heathens.
(c) Christians.
(d) Emperors.

Short Answer Questions

1. The group finally decided to move on once again. This time, they would go to _____.

2. Within ____ the new arrivals had fallen out of good graces with the church.

3. During this time the ____ were being closely watched.

4. The people that signed the compact were loyal subjects of which monarch?

5. What was the name given to the people who believed in the basis and origin of the Christian religion?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the new reign of James I and the consequences for the Separatists.

2. Bradford recounts that the first foundation of the new government was created and put into place aboard the Mayflower. Discuss the events that prompted the design of the agreement.

3. How did the Church attempt to cater to the "heathens?"

4. What was the newly formed identity of the professors?

5. Explain the period referred to as "The Starting Time."

6. What gift did Massasoit leave behind for the Pilgrims? What was the purpose? How long did the arrangement last?

7. Explain the role and purpose of the "professors." Also explain their role in the Church of England.

8. Many of the Pilgrims became seriously ill or died during the first months in Plymouth. Discuss the death of their prominent leader at the time. Who took the man's place?

9. Explain the change in the monarchy when Queen Elizabeth I took the throne.

10. What does the text say about the poor, and sometimes fatal, treatment of those that dared to go up against the Church?

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