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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 should not see each other again.
(b) They are in love with each other.
(c) They wish they had never left England.
(d) Their religious views are in conflict.

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

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

4. 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 is more robust than he has been in years.
(d) Robert has remarried and has his new wife with him.

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

6. To where do Thomas and Joan move?
(a) Ipswich
(b) Salem
(c) Boston
(d) Stamford

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

8. On what grounds will the governor grant Bess' divorce from Robert?
(a) Bess claims irreconcilable differences.
(b) Bess has to admit to adultery.
(c) Bess wants her marriage annulled.
(d) Bess claims mental cruelty.

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

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

11. Will and Bess organize a festival for which holiday?
(a) Halloween
(b) Christmas
(c) Easter
(d) New Year's

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

13. What has instilled fear in the residents of the New Amsterdam area?
(a) The town is overrun by Indians who they fear will turn hostile.
(b) There is a threat of scurvy and tuberculosis.
(c) The area is in danger of flooding from unrelenting rain.
(d) The church elders are on a witch hunt again.

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

15. 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 Bess has traded with them unfairly
(d) That Toby is not sorry for upsetting Telaka's mother's gravesite

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bess learn about her son-in-law?

2. Who will be moving to Greenwich, much to Bess' delight?

3. What complications does Bess experience with the birth of her child?

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

5. What news does Will deliver to Bess?

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