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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Will and Bess realize after they meet?
(a) They wish they had never left England.
(b) They should not see each other again.
(c) They are in love with each other.
(d) Their religious views are in conflict.

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

3. What is Robert Feake's condition?
(a) Robert lives in a fantasy world and thinks he is still with Bess.
(b) Robert has become a minister.
(c) Robert has remarried and has his new wife with him.
(d) Robert is more robust than he has been in years.

4. Why does Toby build a room onto Bess' home?
(a) Bess plans to start a school in her home.
(b) Bess wants a room where she can mix medicines.
(c) Bess's husband, Robert, has gone mad and must be locked away.
(d) Bess needs more sleeping space for her family.

5. Why does Telaka bring her brother, Keoferram, to Bess?
(a) To teach him how to read
(b) To heal a chancre on his leg
(c) To teach him the Bible
(d) To teach him how to speak English

6. Why does Thomas feel he should have Will's position?
(a) Because he is the son-in-law of the community's largest landowner.
(b) Because he has more education that Will has.
(c) Because he has lived in the area longer than Will has.
(d) Because he is more experienced than Will is.

7. What happens when Will Hallet arrives to see Bess?
(a) They realize they are in love.
(b) Bess does not tell him she is pregnant with Robert's child.
(c) Bess tells him to go away.
(d) Will tells Bess he is engaged to a Boston girl.

8. What role does Will Hallet assume in the community of Greenwich?
(a) He becomes a church elder.
(b) He becomes headmaster at Bess' school.
(c) He trains a small band of soldiers.
(d) He becomes the town's mayor.

9. What information is contained in George Baxter's letter to Bess?
(a) Bess must move closer to the village to avoid being attacked by vengeful Indians.
(b) Bess must divorce Robert who has gone mad.
(c) Bess has received a grant to start her school.
(d) Bess is granted all of the Feake-Patrick land to administer as she sees fit.

10. Of what are Bess and Telaka accused?
(a) Theft
(b) Public indecency
(c) Sacrilege
(d) Witchcraft

11. How do Will and Bess help Jack in exchange for his writing to the governor on their behalf?
(a) They help with Indian relations in the area.
(b) They agree to be church elders.
(c) They help with his business dealings and medicines.
(d) They teach his children how to read.

12. Bess' daughter, Joan, marries Thomas Lyon at what age?
(a) Twenty-One
(b) Fourteen
(c) Sixteen
(d) Seventeen

13. What illnesses plague the villagers during the harsh winter?
(a) cholera and tuberculosis
(b) cholera and scurvy
(c) tuberculosis and scurvy
(d) measles and mumps

14. What has happened to Anne Hutchinson?
(a) She has been hanged for being a witch.
(b) She and her family have moved to Salem.
(c) She and her family have been massacred by the Weckquasageek Indians.
(d) She and her family have returned to England.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To where do Thomas and Joan move?

2. Who is the only other person who sees the love between Bess and Will?

3. What do the Feakes and Patricks purchase from Telaka's father, Mianos?

4. Why do Bess and Will travel to New Amsterdam?

5. How does Telaka save the family from the Indians on their journey?

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