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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 to Dorothy's first-born child?
(a) She is stillborn.
(b) She lives to the age of two and then dies of illness.
(c) She is very weak.
(d) She dies about a week after being born.

2. 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) Constant and Thomas.
(c) Constant and Henry.
(d) James and Thomas.

3. Where is the Speedwell forced to dock in an unscheduled stop?
(a) Southampton.
(b) Wiltfordshire.
(c) Eglington.
(d) Chicory.

4. Where do the women go to wash the dishes after the dinner for the newcomers?
(a) The brook.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The meeting house cellar.
(d) The town pump.

5. Who rapes a nameless indentured servant in Part III?
(a) Another indentured servant.
(b) The deacon.
(c) Her master's brother.
(d) William Bradford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Speedwell's master say is wrong about a half-day into their journey?

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

3. What does John Billington tell Eleanor he is taking his gun to shoot in Part IV?

4. Which of the following does Alice have to sell to get back to Holland?

5. What does John Newcomen ask Myles Standish for after his first meeting with John Billington?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to a nameless young girl in Part III?

2. How does Alice get back to Holland as a widow with no money?

3. What problem does William Bradford have with the flowers Dorothy wants for her wedding bouquet?

4. What promise does Alice Bradford make to Dorothy in Part III?

5. What major issue causes a rift between Dorothy and Alice in Part III?

6. What is Eleanor Billington worried about her husband John and Thomas Morton doing in Part IV?

7. What is William Bradford angry with Thomas Weston about in Part IV?

8. What crosses Alice's path on her way to the dock in Part III that she takes as an ill omen?

9. What does Billington say when he confronts Thomas Weston in Part IV?

10. What problems start on the journey to the new world almost immediately?

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