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

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

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

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

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

6. Where do Will and Bess now live?
(a) Hallet's Point
(b) Pequot
(c) Watertown
(d) Boston

7. What complications does Bess experience with the birth of her child?
(a) Beth's child is stillborn.
(b) The child is born deformed and dies soon after.
(c) Bess suffers a miscarriage.
(d) Bess has to stay in bed for several weeks prior to the birth.

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

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

10. Why do Bess and Daniel Patrick go to New Amsterdam?
(a) To settle a dispute about the land they have purchased
(b) To buy more guns for protection
(c) To buy supplies for the winter
(d) To trade coats with the Indians

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

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

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

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

15. What does Bess enjoy most about their new home?
(a) They are neighbors to Daniel Patrick and his family.
(b) Preparing fresh seafood every day
(c) There are more opportunities to shop and trade.
(d) Bathing in the ocean and exploring the woods

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are Bess and Telaka accused?

2. What does Will overhear while in Watertown?

3. What happiness does Bess have in her life now?

4. Bess learns that ____________________ has returned to Boston.

5. What does Robert do to Bess?

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