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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What complications does Bess experience with the birth of her child?
(a) Bess suffers a miscarriage.
(b) The child is born deformed and dies soon after.
(c) Beth's child is stillborn.
(d) Bess has to stay in bed for several weeks prior to the birth.

2. Where do Will and Bess live now?
(a) Boston
(b) Pequot
(c) Salem
(d) Ipswich

3. What are the two sadnesses in Bess' life now?
(a) Bess regrets the divorce from Robert Feakes and the death of their deformed baby.
(b) Joan has died and Bess is estranged from her granddaughter.
(c) Bess misses her mother and her sister.
(d) Bess will never see England again and she longs for Jack Winthrop.

4. What has happened to Robert Feake?
(a) He is confined to his room and must be cared for like a child.
(b) He has been institutionalized for insanity.
(c) He has almost completely recovered from his madness.
(d) He takes his share of the family money and leaves.

5. What happens when Will attempts to get approval from the new governor, Stuyvesant, to marry Bess?
(a) Stuyvesant extends his blessings on the couple.
(b) Stuyvesant agrees to marry them immediately.
(c) Stuyvesant stipulates a one-year waiting period.
(d) Stuyvesant does not grant his approval.

6. Who has been writing to John Winthrop in an attempt to get what might be due to Joan from her late father's holdings in Barbados as well as to contest the paper signed by Robert Feake granting his property to Bess and Will?
(a) Toby Feake
(b) Jack Whitford
(c) Governor Stuyvesant
(d) Thomas Lyon

7. Why are the Indians in the New Netherlands on the warpath?
(a) The Indians are tired of the Europeans moving in on their lands.
(b) The Indian chiefs have received messages from their ancestors that it is time to wage war.
(c) The Dutch governor, Kieft, massacred Indians who had come to him for help.
(d) The Europeans do not make fair trades with the Indians.

8. Bess is grief stricken to learn that ________________________ has died.
(a) Jack Winthrop
(b) Robert Seaford
(c) Margaret Winthrop
(d) Anneke Patrick

9. Where do Will and Bess now live?
(a) Watertown
(b) Pequot
(c) Boston
(d) Hallet's Point

10. What news does Will deliver to Bess?
(a) John Winthrop has named Bess in his will.
(b) He thinks they should return to England.
(c) He has decided to move away to make her life easier in Pequot.
(d) King Charles has been beheaded and there is no more monarchy in England

11. What do the Feakes and Patricks purchase from Telaka's father, Mianos?
(a) Corn and other seeds
(b) Fur and tanned skins
(c) All the land named Greenwich
(d) Meat and game

12. Why does Toby Feake stop in Plymouth on the trip taking Bess and her family to New Amsterdam?
(a) To buy some rum
(b) So that Bess can buy coats to trade with the Indians
(c) To attend church services
(d) To buy some tobacco

13. What happens to all of Bess' assets?
(a) They are put in a safe deposit box.
(b) They are distributed to the villagers.
(c) They are handed over to the church elders.
(d) They are impounded on behalf of Robert Feake.

14. What prevents the Indians from killing Bess and her family when they attack their home?
(a) The Indians think Bess is a witch.
(b) Chief Keofferam, Telaka's brother, recognizes Bess as the one who healed him long ago and does not harm them.
(c) Telaka begs for Bess' life.
(d) Bess offers a peace treaty with the Indians.

15. What does Telaka tell Bess that Telaka's father, Mianos, has done?
(a) Mianos has moved his people to a piece of land further south.
(b) Mianos has killed Toby, Daniel and Daniel's assistant, Ben Palmer.
(c) Mianos has demanded the Telaka return to her people.
(d) Mianos has put a curse on Bess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert do to Bess?

2. Bess' daughter, Joan, marries Thomas Lyon at what age?

3. What does Bess do as her only resort for help in her situation?

4. What has happened to Anne Hutchinson?

5. What does Will overhear while in Watertown?

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