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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What really concerns Edward Howes about what is going on in the Fones household?
(a) That Martha is not being tutored
(b) That Robert Seaton may be a Catholic
(c) That Bess has fallen in love with Robert Seaton
(d) That Mr. Fones is near death

3. With whom has John Winthrop arranged a marriage for Bess?
(a) William Congreve
(b) Robert Seaford
(c) William Falter
(d) Robert Feake

4. Why does King Charles celebrate Christmas?
(a) Because his wife is a papist.
(b) Because he thinks people need a holiday.
(c) Because he enjoys the food.
(d) Because he celebrated as a child.

5. Who tells Bess about Harry's death?
(a) Jack
(b) Margaret
(c) Sara
(d) Martha

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

7. What are Jack's plans?
(a) He wants to open an importing company.
(b) He wants to open a law office.
(c) He plans to the new world with his father.
(d) He wants to manage Groton.

8. Who is voted in as governor of the colony?
(a) Jack Winthrop
(b) Thomas Dudley
(c) Robert Seaford
(d) Robert Feake

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

10. How does John Winthrop react to the news that Jack wants to marry Martha Fones?
(a) He thinks Jack is too young to get married.
(b) He is painfully upset.
(c) He is glad that another son will marry a Fones daughter.
(d) He is thrilled by the news.

11. Who has Bess been encouraged to marry?
(a) Harry Howes
(b) Jack Winthrop
(c) Edward Winthrop
(d) Edward Howes

12. Where does the family insist that Harry go instead of returning to Barbados?
(a) To New England
(b) To Australia
(c) To France
(d) To the Bahamas

13. Why does the Fones family live in London?
(a) Mr. Fones has an apothecary business in London
(b) Mrs. Fones likes to go to the theater in London
(c) Mr. Fones will not leave his home town
(d) The Fones' think the schools are better in London

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

15. What happens when John Winthrop's iron-fisted style of leadership creates huge opposition in the colony?
(a) Winthrop is ousted from office.
(b) Winthrop decides to go back to England.
(c) Winthrop gets even more determined to rule his own way.
(d) Winthrop must speak with the church elders on a regular basis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is crowned the Queen of May Day?

3. What do the children think of Groton Manor?

4. How does the Fones family travel to the family manor in Groton?

5. To what is Bess looking forward?

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