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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. How is Harry fixed for money?
(a) He has no money.
(b) He has enough money to live for six months.
(c) He has plenty of money.
(d) He has enough money to live for a week.

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

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

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

6. What outrage does Bess commit with the countess?
(a) She calls the countess a name.
(b) She asks the countess for payment.
(c) She spills ink on the countess gown.
(d) She steps on the countess' gown.

7. Who does Bess see one day during a celebration?
(a) Will Hallet
(b) Jack Winthrop
(c) Robert Seaford
(d) Robert Feake

8. How does Bess pass her time at Groton?
(a) She becomes interested in gardening.
(b) She has an affinity for outdoor sports.
(c) She learns needlework and works on many projects.
(d) She mixes medicines and treats the servants and tenants.

9. What is the name of John Cotton's sermon?
(a) Doctrine of Grace
(b) Doctrine of Obedience
(c) Doctrine of Forgiveness
(d) Doctrine of the Spirit

10. Who does not seem interested in marrying Bess?
(a) Edward
(b) Jack
(c) William
(d) Harry

11. Why is John Winthrop's wife, Margaret, ailing at Groton?
(a) She has given birth to a child.
(b) She has cancer.
(c) She is melancholy.
(d) She has tuberculosis.

12. What has happened to many of the Indians in the area?
(a) They are learning the white man's ways.
(b) They are learning to speak English.
(c) They are almost wiped out due to illness.
(d) They are planting food indigenous to Europe.

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

14. Why do the men want John Winthrop with them when they go to America?
(a) Because Winthrop has legal knowledge.
(b) Because Winthrop is a religious leader.
(c) Because Winthrop is a good merchant.
(d) Because Winthrop has lots of money.

15. What is the name of the ship on which Harry sails to New England?
(a) Turret
(b) Teutonic
(c) Talbot
(d) Tamara

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the family insist that Harry go instead of returning to Barbados?

2. What is a papist?

3. What elegantly dressed man enters the apothecary shop asking for the best tobacco?

4. Who accompanies Harry and Bess to Groton?

5. Who is Jack Winthrop's new wife?

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