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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twenty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bess perceive her new son-in-law, Thomas?
(a) He is kind but not very smart.
(b) He is lazy and wants to take control of Bess' property.
(c) He is industrious and wants to get started on a home for Joan.
(d) He is a God-fearing man with strict ideas about marriage.

2. What does Fitch, the Fones' servant, tell Edward Howes about the Fones household?
(a) That he needs more help in maintaining the house
(b) That there is not enough money
(c) That he plans to retire soon
(d) That it is being run by the devil

3. The local miller named Pond receives a letter from his son in New England who wants to return home because ____________________________________.
(a) so many are sick and many have died
(b) his fiance has died
(c) he is homesick for the gardens of England
(d) he cannot make a good living

4. Why do Bess and Harry require a special marriage license?
(a) Because they are papists
(b) Because they are cousins
(c) Because they are underage
(d) Because they are Episcopalians

5. How many people plan to sail to New England on the first voyage of the Massachusetts Bay Company?
(a) 50
(b) 350
(c) 700
(d) 100

Short Answer Questions

1. Bess gives birth to a girl and names her _____________________________.

2. What other name does Elizabeth use for herself?

3. Why do Bess and Daniel Patrick go to New Amsterdam?

4. What name does the countess call the Fones family?

5. How has Bess' behavior changed since Harry and Robert have moved into the Fones house?

(see the answer key)

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