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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the ship on which John Winthrop sails to New England?
(a) Armistice
(b) Amistad
(c) Antigone
(d) Arbella

2. What name does the countess call the Fones family?
(a) Ingrates
(b) Heathens
(c) Paupers
(d) Puritans

3. How many people in John Winthrop's company have died since their arrival in New England?
(a) Nearly one half
(b) Nearly all of them
(c) Nearly three fourths
(d) Nearly one third

4. Why does the Fones family not celebrate Christmas?
(a) Because they are dissenters from the Episcopalian faith.
(b) Because they celebrate Kwaanza instead.
(c) Because they are Jewish.
(d) Because they are Muslims.

5. What elegantly dressed man enters the apothecary shop asking for the best tobacco?
(a) Harry Winthrop
(b) Jack Winthrop
(c) Robert Seaton
(d) Edward Howes

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Harry and Bess to Groton?

2. To what does Harry admit at dinner?

3. What does Winthrop note about the people who seem to die first?

4. Now that Bess is a widow, who do the Winthrops want her to consider marrying?

5. Who has Bess been encouraged to marry?

(see the answer key)

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