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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does John Winthrop think of Daniel Patrick's and Anne Hutchinson's deaths?
(a) He is not surprised because they had made many enemies.
(b) The deaths are a natural consequence of ungodly behavior.
(c) The deaths are untimely and tragic.
(d) Death is to be expected in a burgeoning country.

4. Who does Bess happily encounter in Plymouth?
(a) Jack Winthrop
(b) Will Hallet
(c) Daniel Patrick
(d) Robert Seaford

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. 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 Dutch governor, Kieft, massacred Indians who had come to him for help.
(c) The Europeans do not make fair trades with the Indians.
(d) The Indian chiefs have received messages from their ancestors that it is time to wage war.

13. What happens when Will tells Bess about the governor's answer?
(a) Will and Bess marry themselves at Will's home.
(b) Bess wants to take some time to think it over.
(c) Will and Bess abide by the governor's wishes.
(d) Will wants to take some time to think it over.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Will and Bess now live?

2. What does Will discover when he visits Watertown?

3. What happens to all of Bess' assets?

4. What shocking news does Jack receive in a letter?

5. What happens when Will attempts to get approval from the new governor, Stuyvesant, to marry Bess?

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