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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Alice leave Joseph sleeping when she goes to wash dishes in Part IV?
(a) In the care of Susanna.
(b) In the cellars beneath the meeting house, alone.
(c) In the care of Eleanor Billington.
(d) In his moses basket next to William.

2. Where does Alice live after getting back to Holland following her husband's death?
(a) With Dorothy's parents.
(b) With William.
(c) With Johannes.
(d) With her parents.

3. What does Dorothy give to Alice before they part for the last time?
(a) Her ring.
(b) Her favorite pen.
(c) Her handkerchief.
(d) Her favorite book.

4. What do Alice Bradford and the others give to the newcomers at the first dinner in Part IV?
(a) Special wine from the cellars.
(b) More food than they give themselves.
(c) Candlesticks to take him.
(d) Sweets with a lot of sugar.

5. Who are Alice's two children she wants to bring on the journey to the colony with her, despite saying she would leave them behind?
(a) John and Henry.
(b) James and Thomas.
(c) Constant and Thomas.
(d) Constant and Henry.

6. What does John Newcomen ask Myles Standish for after his first meeting with John Billington?
(a) Training to shoot his musket.
(b) A different plot of land.
(c) A new gun.
(d) Money to get started.

7. Which of the following does Alice have to sell to get back to Holland?
(a) A musket.
(b) Her wedding ring.
(c) Her mother's best earrings.
(d) Her best dress.

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

9. What does the indentured servant's rapist threaten to do if she tells anyone what he did to her?
(a) Kill her family's livestock.
(b) Kill all her friends.
(c) Kill her sister.
(d) Kill her mother.

10. What does John, Alice's stepson, say he wished he had not asked his mother for?
(a) To eat from a certain plate.
(b) To sing with her.
(c) To come to the colony with her.
(d) To have her read him a bedtime story.

11. Who pays for dinner to be served for Alice's group at the boardinghouse on the first night?
(a) John Carver.
(b) William Bradford.
(c) Henry Jamison.
(d) John Billington.

12. Who does Morton tell the Billingtons is keeping two Indians captive in London?
(a) Myles Standish.
(b) Sir Ferdinando Gorges.
(c) Pastor Robinson.
(d) William Bradford.

13. What does Eleanor Billington do in a last-ditch effort to save John Billington's life?
(a) Plead his case for mercy to Alice Bradford.
(b) Break him out of jail.
(c) Write to King James to ask for mercy.
(d) Pray for his soul herself.

14. Who is John Billington very happy to see disembark from the ship in Part III?
(a) Henry Jamison.
(b) Thomas Weston.
(c) John Worthington.
(d) Thomas Morton.

15. What makes Alice doubt that the reasons for tragedies are God's intentions?
(a) The stillbirth of her own baby.
(b) Her mother's death.
(c) The stillbirth of Dorothy's first baby.
(d) Her husband's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony in Part IV?

2. Where had Alice seen an Indian one time before ever arriving in Plymouth?

3. What is one of the last images John Newcomen ever sees in his mind?

4. Where is the Speedwell forced to dock in an unscheduled stop?

5. What does John Billington tell the person he speaks with privately at the very beginning of Part III?

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