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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 157 - 208).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a "cabin" on the Speedwell?
(a) A bed lifted off the ground.
(b) An enclosed room.
(c) A crate.
(d) A board in the wall.

2. Why do some of the colonists at Plymouth decline to celebrate Christmas?
(a) It has no scriptural history.
(b) The governor saw God in a vision, who told him not to celebrate it.
(c) The king told them not to.
(d) They do not have enough money to celebrate it.

3. What does William Bradford wait for in order to propose to Dorothy?
(a) His inheritance sum.
(b) His older brother to marry first.
(c) His law degree.
(d) His business partner to bless the union.

4. What work does Thomas Morton tell John Billington he is currently writing in Part IV?
(a) Devil at Plymouth.
(b) The New English Canaan.
(c) The Colonists' Downfall.
(d) The True Story of Plymouth.

5. What does the Speedwell's master say is wrong about a half-day into their journey?
(a) The ship is short of sailors.
(b) The ship has bad spirits aboard.
(c) The ship leaks.
(d) The ship has hit an iceberg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Weston repeatedly ask Billington in Part IV?

2. What does Myles Standish reveal to Eleanor Billington about the dinner for newcomers that she did not previously know?

3. Which ship sprang a leak and could not sail for Plymouth when it should have?

4. Which Indian chief does Bradford strike a treaty with?

5. Why do William and the others not want to travel to New Netherlands and settle there?

(see the answer key)

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