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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bess delivers her fourth child, a son, and names him ____________.
(a) Will
(b) Jack
(c) Robert
(d) John

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

4. 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) Thomas Lyon
(b) Governor Stuyvesant
(c) Jack Whitford
(d) Toby Feake

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

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

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

8. What surprise awaits Bess as she arrives at the governor's mansion?
(a) Jack Winthrop reveals his love for Bess.
(b) Robert Feake has returned to reconcile with Bess.
(c) Will and Bess are given permission to marry and their land is reinstated to them.
(d) John Winthrop is not really dead and wants Bess to suffer for her sins.

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

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

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

12. How do the Feakes children manage to stay well during this winter?
(a) Telaka gathers herbs to keep them well.
(b) The children stay in their own home away from other children.
(c) Telaka gives the children vitamins.
(d) The children drink all of their milk.

13. What happens with the arrival of Captain Underhill?
(a) His soldiers kill more than a thousand Indians in a surprise attack.
(b) He brings lots of goods from which Bess can shop.
(c) There is a new government structure implemented.
(d) Bess is promised more protection from the Indians.

14. Why do Toby Feake, Thomas Lyon and Angell Husted arrive at Will's house armed and angry?
(a) Because Will and Bess have committed adultery
(b) Because Robert Feake did not agree to the divorce
(c) Because they want Bess' property
(d) Because there is talk of another Indian attack

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Robert Feake's condition?

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

3. Why does John Winthrop banish Daniel Patrick and his family from the colony?

4. Will and Bess organize a festival for which holiday?

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

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