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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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 murdered corpse of Ben Palmer
(c) The head of Mianos and the dead body of John Winthrop
(d) The head of Mianos and the dead body of Telaka

4. What does Will overhear while in Watertown?
(a) Greenwich has been given over to New England and is no longer Dutch.
(b) There will soon be another Indian uprising.
(c) Joan has inherited quite a lot of money from her late father's estate.
(d) Robert Feake has been arrested for another murder.

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

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

7. What happens to all of Bess' assets?
(a) They are put in a safe deposit box.
(b) They are handed over to the church elders.
(c) They are distributed to the villagers.
(d) They are impounded on behalf of Robert Feake.

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

9. Bess is grief stricken to learn that ________________________ has died.
(a) Robert Seaford
(b) Margaret Winthrop
(c) Anneke Patrick
(d) Jack Winthrop

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

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

12. Will and Bess organize a festival for which holiday?
(a) Easter
(b) Christmas
(c) Halloween
(d) New Year's

13. With what physical problems is Robert Feake troubled?
(a) Digestive issues
(b) Joint pain
(c) Headaches and mental troubles
(d) Arthritis

14. What does Telaka tell Bess when they meet in the woods?
(a) That Will will die by next winter
(b) That Bess will die in the next few months
(c) That Bess will be tried for being a witch
(d) That Telaka wants to return to her people

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack tell Bess about Robert Feakes?

2. How do the Feakes children manage to stay well during this winter?

3. What information is contained in George Baxter's letter to Bess?

4. How do Will and Bess help Jack in exchange for his writing to the governor on their behalf?

5. Bess delivers her fourth child, a son, and names him ____________.

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