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

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

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. To where do Thomas and Joan move?
(a) Stamford
(b) Ipswich
(c) Salem
(d) Boston

5. What has happened to Bess' husband, Robert?
(a) Robert has spiralled even further into madness.
(b) Robert has died of natural causes.
(c) Robert has stowed away on a ship back to England.
(d) Robert has emerged from his dementia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are Bess and Telaka accused?

2. What happens when Will tells Bess about the governor's answer?

3. Where do Will and Bess live now?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the symbolism of Bess' new home in Watertown?

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

4. What occurs in Chapter 18 to mark the turning point of Bess' personal life?

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

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

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

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

9. What is the final symbolic representation of Bess' marriage to Robert?

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

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