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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This man had been a pastor in which Massachusetts city before moving to Plymouth?
(a) Boston.
(b) Cape May.
(c) Kennebec.
(d) Salem.

2. The majority of the letters were filled with _____.
(a) Complaints.
(b) People yearning for their loved ones.
(c) News from home.
(d) Sorrow.

3. As a result of their weaknesses the colonists began to die from which of the folliowing:
(a) Stavation.
(b) Scurvy.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Dehydration.

4. Another plague swept through the area, this time throughout the Indian community. Out of 1000 Indians, approximately ___ survived.
(a) 250.
(b) 100.
(c) 50.
(d) 75.

5. Who managed to take over Weston's ruined plantation?
(a) Gunn.
(b) Gorges.
(c) Gregory.
(d) George.

6. The Governor feared that the separation would bring about _____.
(a) Lawlessness.
(b) Lack of control over the people.
(c) A breakdown in Indian relations.
(d) The wrath of God.

7. The Dutch were fearful that the ____ would take away their trade if they did not get there first.
(a) Spanish.
(b) French.
(c) Indians.
(d) English.

8. The conflict surrounded trading in an area that belonged to the _______Plantation.
(a) Kittery.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Hocking.
(d) Piscataqua.

9. Who ordered Weston's arrest?
(a) Smith.
(b) Bradford.
(c) Gorges.
(d) Standish.

10. How many pelts were taken to England?
(a) 50.
(b) 75.
(c) 125.
(d) 100.

11. Winslow went to England to attempt to settle the accounts including the issues with the White ____.
(a) Plantation.
(b) Angel.
(c) Horse.
(d) Flower.

12. Bradford refers to this time as having "some strange and remarkable ______."
(a) People.
(b) Occurrences.
(c) Passages.
(d) Inventions.

13. The ship sank near which town?
(a) Poughkeepsie.
(b) Damariscove.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Jamestown.

14. Conflict over the trade took place between which two tribes?
(a) Pequot and Mohicans.
(b) Seneca and Iriquois.
(c) Massachusetts and Pequot.
(d) Mohicans and Seneca.

15. Weston's people objected not out of loyalty but out of fear of which of the following?
(a) Unemployment.
(b) Retribution.
(c) Loss of Indian relations.
(d) Starvation.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the shipwreck occur?

2. The conflict was eventually settled by governors Prence and _____.

3. The man was the founder of which colony?

4. What was the main purpose of the ship?

5. Despite the man's trickery Bradford was still considered to be a savvy ____.

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