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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Will do before leaving Watertown?
(a) He stops by a jeweler's and buys a locket for Bess.
(b) He stops by a lawyer's office and has his will changed.
(c) He leaves money for Robert's care and pays for any of Robert's former land holdings in Greenwich.
(d) He makes arrangements for Bess' portrait to be painted.

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

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

7. What does Bess learn about her son-in-law?
(a) Thomas no longer loves Joan.
(b) Thomas has turned his life around.
(c) Thomas has become an alcoholic.
(d) Thomas is still trying to get Bess' land.

8. What happiness does Bess have in her life now?
(a) Bess will be able to return to England for an extended visit soon.
(b) Her daughter, Hannah, is turning eighteen and is about to be betrothed to a man named John Browne.
(c) Bess is pregnant again with Will's child.
(d) Bess finally has all the money she could ever need.

9. Why do Bess and Will travel to New Amsterdam?
(a) To buy more land surrounding Greenwich
(b) To buy more guns for the next Indian uprising
(c) To look into having Robert commited for insanity
(d) To secure a divorce for Bess, freeing her to marry Will

10. How do Will and Bess escape their dire fate?
(a) They are able to convince the governor to reverse their punishment.
(b) They manage to sail to England.
(c) Jack Winthrop rescues them and gives them six acres and a home.
(d) John Winthrop intervenes on their behalf with the governor.

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

12. When Daniel and Toby return, what do they bring with them?
(a) The head of Ben Palmer and the dead body of Mianos
(b) The head of Mianos and the dead body of Telaka
(c) The head of Mianos and the dead body of John Winthrop
(d) The head of Mianos and the murdered corpse of Ben Palmer

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

14. 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 lives in a fantasy world and thinks he is still with Bess.
(d) Robert has remarried and has his new wife with him.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has happened to Robert Feake?

3. Why do Toby Feake, Thomas Lyon and Angell Husted arrive at Will's house armed and angry?

4. Where do Will and Bess live now?

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

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