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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dorothy feel about moving to the colonies?

2. What kind of flowers had Dorothy wanted for her wedding bouquet?

3. What do the Puritans believe asking for anything earthly will bring about?

4. When is the only time Alice is thankful to see Myles Standish with his gun ready?

5. What is one action the midwife tells Dorothy to try to increase her fertility?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Plymouth do with some of its dead in the worst of its first winter?

3. What kind of story is Thomas Morton writing in Part IV?

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

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

6. What do Alice and Elizabeth hear in Part IV at the brook that sends them running back to the meeting house?

7. What does Alice Bradford feel it is important to tell Dorothy's and William's son when she first meets him in Part IV?

8. What considerations do the leaders of the colony weigh in figuring out how to handle the murder?

9. What does Standish ask Billington when Billington shows him the beaver pelts he means to use to buy his last piece of land?

10. How does Eleanor react when Billington tells her about his crime?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When does Alice Bradford first truly see a sinister side to her husband William, and what brings about this revelation? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What kinds of challenges and problems do the would-be settlers encounter nearly from the minute they set foot on the ship the Gifte? What do these hardships seem to predict for their futures? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the novel, and in much older age, how do both Eleanor Billington and Alice Bradford seem to view both the future and the past of Plymouth? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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