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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twenty-Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What personal information does Bess give to Jack?
(a) Bess is pregnant.
(b) Bess misses her mother.
(c) Bess does not love Harry.
(d) Bess cannot stand her mother-in-law.

2. Why do Bess and Harry require a special marriage license?
(a) Because they are Episcopalians
(b) Because they are papists
(c) Because they are underage
(d) Because they are cousins

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

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

5. Why is Bess' servant, Sally, jailed?
(a) Speaking out against the church elders
(b) Theft
(c) Devil worship
(d) Venery (indulgence in sexual pleasure)

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Harry admit at dinner?

2. Why does Toby Feake stop in Plymouth on the trip taking Bess and her family to New Amsterdam?

3. How do the Feakes children manage to stay well during this winter?

4. Will and Bess organize a festival for which holiday?

5. Where will Joan and Thomas live?

(see the answer key)

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