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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Will discover when he visits Watertown?
(a) Robert Feake has set up shop as a jeweler.
(b) Robert Feake has become a church elder.
(c) Robert Feake is the new mayor.
(d) Robert Feake has returned and is being cared for by the town.

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

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

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

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

7. What does Bell beg Telaka not to tell her tribe?
(a) That Bess has traded with them unfairly
(b) That Daniel Patrick is planning on waging war on the Indians
(c) That Daniel Patrick has killed Mianos
(d) That Toby is not sorry for upsetting Telaka's mother's gravesite

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

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

10. How does Bess perceive her new son-in-law, Thomas?
(a) He is lazy and wants to take control of Bess' property.
(b) He is kind but not very smart.
(c) He is industrious and wants to get started on a home for Joan.
(d) He is a God-fearing man with strict ideas about marriage.

11. Why does Thomas feel he should have Will's position?
(a) Because he has more education that Will has.
(b) Because he is more experienced than Will is.
(c) Because he is the son-in-law of the community's largest landowner.
(d) Because he has lived in the area longer than Will has.

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

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

14. What happens with the delivery of a letter from the Dutch Director-General?
(a) Will and Bess are made elders of the church.
(b) Will is banished from the colony and Bess, as an adulteress, may never see him again.
(c) Will learns that his mother has died in London.
(d) A statue is to be dedicated to Bess.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under whose jurisdiction does the Feakes-Patrick land fall after the meeting?

2. What has happened to Anne Hutchinson?

3. What prevents the Indians from killing Bess and her family when they attack their home?

4. Who has recently arrived from Germany?

5. What happens with the arrival of Captain Underhill?

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