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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Bess learns that ____________________ has returned to Boston.
(a) Will Hallet
(b) Jack Winthrop
(c) Toby Feake
(d) Robert Seaford

4. What happens when Will attempts to get approval from the new governor, Stuyvesant, to marry Bess?
(a) Stuyvesant extends his blessings on the couple.
(b) Stuyvesant stipulates a one-year waiting period.
(c) Stuyvesant does not grant his approval.
(d) Stuyvesant agrees to marry them immediately.

5. What is Robert Feake's condition?
(a) Robert is more robust than he has been in years.
(b) Robert has remarried and has his new wife with him.
(c) Robert has become a minister.
(d) Robert lives in a fantasy world and thinks he is still with Bess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Will and Bess realize after they meet?

2. What news does Will deliver to Bess?

3. What does John Winthrop think of Daniel Patrick's and Anne Hutchinson's deaths?

4. Of what are Bess and Telaka accused?

5. What does Will tell Thomas Lyon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Bess and Will go to New Amsterdam together?

2. What would make the villagers accuse Bess of being a witch?

3. How does Bess meet up again with Will Hallet?

4. What surprising statement does the harsh John Winthrop make just prior to his death?

5. What happens when the new governor refuses to marry Will and Bess?

6. What does Bess do when she and Will are accused of adultery and are about to be parted forever?

7. Under what conditions is Bess' divorce from Robert granted?

8. What are some of the underlying reasons for the witchcraft hysteria running rampant in the colony?

9. What happens when Will and Bess return to New Amsterdam in Chapter 23?

10. What occurs in Chapter 18 which is a mixed blessing for Bess?

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