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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wedding gift does Harry buy for Bess?
(a) A new horse
(b) A cheap brooch
(c) A new home
(d) A new trousseau

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

3. Who does Bess learn will be arriving soon at Groton?
(a) Jack Winthrop
(b) Priscilla, Sam, and Martha Fones
(c) Sara Winthrop
(d) Emily Fones

4. What does Winthrop note about the people who seem to die first?
(a) They are the smaller ones.
(b) They are the ones who yearn most for home.
(c) They are the ones with weak constitutions.
(d) They never really wanted to come on the journey.

5. After what group is John Winthrop's new colony patterned?
(a) The Papists in Rome
(b) The Separatists in England
(c) The Jews in Israel
(d) The Episcopalians in England

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Fones family not celebrate Christmas?

2. What do the men need before they can plan their journey to the new world?

3. What does Bess prefer to household chores?

4. What is the name of the ship that Harry's friend, Willaim Pelham, sails on to New England?

5. What action by the king infuriates Emmannuel Downing, John Winthrop and others?

(see the answer key)

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