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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 has happened to Robert Feake?
(a) He has almost completely recovered from his madness.
(b) He is confined to his room and must be cared for like a child.
(c) He takes his share of the family money and leaves.
(d) He has been institutionalized for insanity.

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Bess happily encounter in Plymouth?

2. What does Chief Keofferam, Telaka's brother, do to impress Bess?

3. Who will be moving to Greenwich, much to Bess' delight?

4. Bess is grief stricken to learn that ________________________ has died.

5. What happens when Will attempts to get approval from the new governor, Stuyvesant, to marry Bess?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Will discover when he visits Watertown one day?

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

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

4. Where do Will, Bess and the children settle into a new home?

5. How does Bess disrupt Thomas' attempt to take her land away from her in the name of Robert Feake?

6. Why are Bess and her family saved during an Indian attack on their home?

7. Why does Toby build on a room to Bess' house?

8. How does Bess' life change dramatically for Bess in Chapter 16?

9. How does the claims by other countries affect Bess personally?

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

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