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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. Who was to be the governor of the new colony?
(a) John Carver.
(b) William Bradford.
(c) Robert Cushman.
(d) John Howland.

2. What day did the Mayflower leave Provincetown Harbor?
(a) December 25.
(b) December 15.
(c) December 1.
(d) November 30.

3. What Italian explorer had come to Narragansett Bay as early as 1524?
(a) Verrazano.
(b) Caboto.
(c) Vespucci.
(d) Castiglione.

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

5. Who wrote a book about the voyage of the Mayflower?
(a) William Brewster.
(b) John Robinson.
(c) Robert Cushman.
(d) William Bradford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had killed many of the Indians in the area?

2. What area did Jones likely follow as the Mayflower headed south?

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

4. Where was the ship's helmsman stationed?

5. Who is the carpenter turned Indian fighter that the author will focus on in the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the Nausets "ill affected toward the English"?

2. How did Thomas Hunt damage Indian-English relations in New England for decades?

3. Why were passengers in an uproar when they learned they were headed to New England rather than the Hudson River?

4. Describe how an Indian named Epenow persuaded his English abductors to return him to the New World.

5. Why was it illegal for the Separatists to have their own church services?

6. Why do some people think that Dorothy Bradford may have committed suicide?

7. How did the master of the Speedwell work against the Pilgrims?

8. Hobbamock was a pniese. What is a pniese?

9. How did the Pilgrims' first Indian visitor, Samoset, learn to speak English?

10. How did the Pilgrims attempt to make a show of strength to the Indians?

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