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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under whose jurisdiction does the Feakes-Patrick land fall after the meeting?
(a) The Papists
(b) The Germans
(c) The Dutch
(d) The Puritans

2. What shocking news does Jack receive in a letter?
(a) He learns that Bess has loved him for many years.
(b) His property has been sold out from under him.
(c) His father, John Winthrop, has died.
(d) He is to pay extra taxes for harboring a witch.

3. What does Will tell Thomas Lyon?
(a) Thomas is no longer in Bess' will.
(b) Will has a job for Thomas.
(c) Thomas should move out of Bess' house and support himself.
(d) Thomas will need to help Will now that he is Bess' husband.

4. What does Jack tell Bess about Robert Feakes?
(a) Robert is still in love with Bess.
(b) Robert is in jail in England after confessing to murdering his former apprentice.
(c) Robert has returned to his career as a jeweler in London.
(d) Robert plans to get custody of his children.

5. What does Telaka tell Bess when they meet in the woods?
(a) That Will will die by next winter
(b) That Bess will die in the next few months
(c) That Bess will be tried for being a witch
(d) That Telaka wants to return to her people

6. What does Robert do to Bess?
(a) He rapes her in a fit of insanity.
(b) He demands that she stop mixing medicines.
(c) He apologizes for making her life so difficult.
(d) He becomes more loving than ever before.

7. What does Bell beg Telaka not to tell her tribe?
(a) That Daniel Patrick is planning on waging war on the Indians
(b) That Daniel Patrick has killed Mianos
(c) That Toby is not sorry for upsetting Telaka's mother's gravesite
(d) That Bess has traded with them unfairly

8. 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 needs more sleeping space for her family.
(d) Bess's husband, Robert, has gone mad and must be locked away.

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

10. What does Chief Keofferam, Telaka's brother, do to impress Bess?
(a) He offers Bess help in planting a garden.
(b) He brings turkey and venison for Christmas.
(c) He calls a truce from all the fighting.
(d) He brings herbs for Bess' medicines.

11. What does Bess do as her only resort for help in her situation?
(a) She makes plans to return to England.
(b) She writes an impassioned letter to the governor.
(c) She gives the kid glove to Toby with instructions to find Jack.
(d) She travels to meet the governor in person.

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

13. What does Bess do after the birth of her son two days before Christmas?
(a) She holds a celebration with pine boughs, candles, and dancing.
(b) She sends out birth announcements.
(c) She makes arrangements for the child's christening.
(d) She begins to sew baby clothes.

14. 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) Governor Stuyvesant
(c) Jack Whitford
(d) Thomas Lyon

15. Why does John Winthrop banish Daniel Patrick and his family from the colony?
(a) He accuses Daniel of having an affair with Bess.
(b) Daniel's views no longer coincide with the colony's religious position.
(c) Daniel is too strong of a political opponent.
(d) Daniel has stolen money from the colony's treasury.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to Bess' husband, Robert?

2. Where do Will and Bess now live?

3. Why does Telaka bring her brother, Keoferram, to Bess?

4. How do Will and Bess help Jack in exchange for his writing to the governor on their behalf?

5. Of what are Bess and Telaka accused?

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