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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bess learns that ____________________ has returned to Boston.
(a) Toby Feake
(b) Will Hallet
(c) Robert Seaford
(d) Jack Winthrop

2. Who does Bess happily encounter in Plymouth?
(a) Daniel Patrick
(b) Will Hallet
(c) Robert Seaford
(d) Jack Winthrop

3. What does Bess learn about her son-in-law?
(a) Thomas has turned his life around.
(b) Thomas no longer loves Joan.
(c) Thomas has become an alcoholic.
(d) Thomas is still trying to get Bess' land.

4. What does Will tell Thomas Lyon?
(a) Will has a job for Thomas.
(b) Thomas should move out of Bess' house and support himself.
(c) Thomas is no longer in Bess' will.
(d) Thomas will need to help Will now that he is Bess' husband.

5. What does Will do before leaving Watertown?
(a) He makes arrangements for Bess' portrait to be painted.
(b) He stops by a jeweler's and buys a locket for Bess.
(c) He stops by a lawyer's office and has his will changed.
(d) He leaves money for Robert's care and pays for any of Robert's former land holdings in Greenwich.

6. Who will be moving to Greenwich, much to Bess' delight?
(a) Jack Winthrop
(b) Will Hallet
(c) Anne Hutchinson
(d) Robert Seaford

7. What do Will and Bess realize after they meet?
(a) They are in love with each other.
(b) They should not see each other again.
(c) Their religious views are in conflict.
(d) They wish they had never left England.

8. How do Will and Bess help Jack in exchange for his writing to the governor on their behalf?
(a) They teach his children how to read.
(b) They help with his business dealings and medicines.
(c) They help with Indian relations in the area.
(d) They agree to be church elders.

9. On what grounds will the governor grant Bess' divorce from Robert?
(a) Bess has to admit to adultery.
(b) Bess wants her marriage annulled.
(c) Bess claims mental cruelty.
(d) Bess claims irreconcilable differences.

10. What does Jack tell Bess about Robert Feakes?
(a) Robert is in jail in England after confessing to murdering his former apprentice.
(b) Robert is still in love with Bess.
(c) Robert has returned to his career as a jeweler in London.
(d) Robert plans to get custody of his children.

11. Why do Bess and Will travel to New Amsterdam?
(a) To secure a divorce for Bess, freeing her to marry Will
(b) To look into having Robert commited for insanity
(c) To buy more land surrounding Greenwich
(d) To buy more guns for the next Indian uprising

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

13. Why does Toby Feake stop in Plymouth on the trip taking Bess and her family to New Amsterdam?
(a) To attend church services
(b) To buy some tobacco
(c) So that Bess can buy coats to trade with the Indians
(d) To buy some rum

14. Bess' daughter, Joan, marries Thomas Lyon at what age?
(a) Twenty-One
(b) Fourteen
(c) Seventeen
(d) Sixteen

15. What does Bell beg Telaka not to tell her tribe?
(a) That Toby is not sorry for upsetting Telaka's mother's gravesite
(b) That Daniel Patrick has killed Mianos
(c) That Bess has traded with them unfairly
(d) That Daniel Patrick is planning on waging war on the Indians

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Will and Bess live now?

2. Of what are Bess and Telaka accused?

3. What news does Will deliver to Bess?

4. What does Telaka tell Bess when they meet in the woods?

5. Why do Toby Feake, Thomas Lyon and Angell Husted arrive at Will's house armed and angry?

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