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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens when Will attempts to get approval from the new governor, Stuyvesant, to marry Bess?
(a) Stuyvesant does not grant his approval.
(b) Stuyvesant agrees to marry them immediately.
(c) Stuyvesant stipulates a one-year waiting period.
(d) Stuyvesant extends his blessings on the couple.

3. What surprise awaits Bess as she arrives at the governor's mansion?
(a) Will and Bess are given permission to marry and their land is reinstated to them.
(b) Jack Winthrop reveals his love for Bess.
(c) John Winthrop is not really dead and wants Bess to suffer for her sins.
(d) Robert Feake has returned to reconcile with Bess.

4. To where do Thomas and Joan move?
(a) Salem
(b) Ipswich
(c) Stamford
(d) Boston

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

6. What happens to all of Bess' assets?
(a) They are handed over to the church elders.
(b) They are distributed to the villagers.
(c) They are impounded on behalf of Robert Feake.
(d) They are put in a safe deposit box.

7. Who has recently arrived from Germany?
(a) Elsa Fones, Bess' aunt
(b) Sara Congreve, Bess' childhood friend
(c) Robert Seaford, Harry's old friend
(d) Toby Feake, Robert's nephew

8. What prevents the Indians from killing Bess and her family when they attack their home?
(a) The Indians think Bess is a witch.
(b) Bess offers a peace treaty with the Indians.
(c) Chief Keofferam, Telaka's brother, recognizes Bess as the one who healed him long ago and does not harm them.
(d) Telaka begs for Bess' life.

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

10. Of what are Bess and Telaka accused?
(a) Public indecency
(b) Theft
(c) Sacrilege
(d) Witchcraft

11. Where do Will and Bess live now?
(a) Ipswich
(b) Pequot
(c) Salem
(d) Boston

12. What illnesses plague the villagers during the harsh winter?
(a) tuberculosis and scurvy
(b) measles and mumps
(c) cholera and scurvy
(d) cholera and tuberculosis

13. What happiness does Bess have in her life now?
(a) Bess will be able to return to England for an extended visit soon.
(b) Bess finally has all the money she could ever need.
(c) Bess is pregnant again with Will's child.
(d) Her daughter, Hannah, is turning eighteen and is about to be betrothed to a man named John Browne.

14. What does John Winthrop think of Daniel Patrick's and Anne Hutchinson's deaths?
(a) The deaths are a natural consequence of ungodly behavior.
(b) The deaths are untimely and tragic.
(c) He is not surprised because they had made many enemies.
(d) Death is to be expected in a burgeoning country.

15. What does Will overhear while in Watertown?
(a) Greenwich has been given over to New England and is no longer Dutch.
(b) Joan has inherited quite a lot of money from her late father's estate.
(c) Robert Feake has been arrested for another murder.
(d) There will soon be another Indian uprising.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocking news does Jack receive in a letter?

2. Who will be moving to Greenwich, much to Bess' delight?

3. What does Bess do as her only resort for help in her situation?

4. How does Bess perceive her new son-in-law, Thomas?

5. Why do Bess and Will travel to New Amsterdam?

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