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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who allowed war to happen?
(a) Massassoit and Bradford.
(b) Philip and Josiah Winslow.
(c) Church and Andrew.
(d) Bradford and Church.

2. Where did Bradford go to worship when he became uneasy with the way God was worshipped in Austerfield?
(a) Leiden.
(b) Lincolnshire.
(c) Scrooby.
(d) Grimsby.

3. Who had the Pilgrims considered asking to be their military leader?
(a) John Cabot.
(b) Jacques Cartier.
(c) Champlain.
(d) John Smith.

4. Where did the most powerful Native leader in the region live?
(a) About 30 miles away.
(b) About 60 miles southwest of Provincetown Harbor.
(c) On an island near the Pilgrims.
(d) About 20 miles southwest of Cape Cod.

5. What happened to Squanto at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) He caught typhus.
(b) He died.
(c) He was imprisoned.
(d) He was captured by the Nauset.

6. Who was the Nauset sachem?
(a) Massasoit.
(b) Canacum.
(c) Aspinet.
(d) Tokamahamon.

7. Who was the most powerful Native leader in the region?
(a) Sachem.
(b) Squanto.
(c) Hobamock.
(d) Massasoit.

8. What did Bradford learn at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) John Carver had died.
(b) His wife had drowned.
(c) Miles Standish had died.
(d) His son had died.

9. What was a third name for the spirit that Massasoit's people associated with death, night, and the bitter northeast wind?
(a) Cheepi.
(b) Kietan.
(c) Hobbamock.
(d) Tisquantum.

10. When did the Mayflower arrive at Provincetown Harbor?
(a) October 30.
(b) November 11.
(c) November 2.
(d) December 1.

11. What ship appeared at Provincetown Harbor in November of 1621?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Weston.
(c) Anne.
(d) Maine.

12. Where did the Pilgrim's plan to build their houses?
(a) Fort Hill.
(b) Cole's Hill.
(c) In the forest.
(d) Near the salt marsh.

13. What was the name of an ominous Pokanokets spirit of darkness?
(a) Squanto.
(b) Kietan.
(c) Tisquantum.
(d) Hobbamock.

14. How many people died each day in February and March, 1621?
(a) One or two.
(b) One.
(c) Four or five.
(d) Two or three.

15. What member of the Mayflower crew decided to stay in Plymouth?
(a) John Clark.
(b) Robert Coppin.
(c) John Alden.
(d) Christopher Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Cape Cod known for?

2. Who did William Bradford marry?

3. What did Francis Billington claim to see when he climbed a tree on Fort Hill?

4. What Indian, besides the Indian who first visited the Pilgrims, could also speak English?

5. Who led the author to write about the Pilgrims?

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