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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Bess deliver to her father that makes him hit her with a stick?
(a) That she and Harry wish to be married
(b) That she wants to move to Barbados
(c) That she has never loved her father
(d) That she is pregnant with Edward's child

2. What does Matthew Craddock bring to Emannuel Downing's home?
(a) A case of rum
(b) Fresh tobacco from Barbados
(c) A silk-wrapped charter from England
(d) Two new horses

3. What action by the king infuriates Emmannuel Downing, John Winthrop and others?
(a) The king has granted territory in America to other men.
(b) The king has issued higher taxes on rum.
(c) The king has claimed the Roman Catholic Church as the only church in England.
(d) The king has changed the marriage laws.

4. What does this customer tell Bess is awaiting her on the other side of the wall?
(a) A horse
(b) A new carriage
(c) A valentine
(d) A tobacco vendor

5. What does Bess realize shortly after her marriage to Harry?
(a) That she is too young to be married.
(b) That Harry has been married before.
(c) That Harry is gay.
(d) That she has always loved Harry's brother, Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Bess and Harry require a special marriage license?

2. What does Thomas Fones, while on his deathbed, ask of John Winthrop?

3. Who accompanies Harry and Bess to Groton?

4. What do the Fones children think of their uncle?

5. To what does Harry admit at dinner?

(see the answer key)

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