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1. In what year did the Pilgrims arrive in America?

a. 1492
b. 1556
c. 1620
d. 1640

2. Which is true of the Mayflower?

a. The Pilgrims owned it.
b. The Pilgrims paid for it to carry them to America.
c. It never returned to England.
d. It sailed back to England after a week at Plymouth.

3. What did the Speedwell do?

a. Leaked like a sieve.
b. Accompanied the Mayflower to America.
c. Brought supplies to the Pilgrims.
d. Surrendered to pirates.

4. What’s the difference between Separatists and Puritans?

a. The Separatists accepted the Pope’s authority.
b. The Separatists saw no hope for the Church of England.
c. The Puritans kept the Separatists separate from Plymouth.
d. The Separatists kept the Puritans separate from Plymouth.

5. How many Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth?

a. 62
b. 82
c. 102
d. 120

6. What happened at First Encounter?

a. The Pilgrims set foot on a beach.
b. The Pilgrims set foot on a rock.
c. Indians shot arrows at Pilgrims.
d. Indians and Pilgrims smoked a peace pipe.

7. What was the major decision expressed in the Mayflower Compact?

a. The Pilgrims established a Constitutional government.
b. The Pilgrims agreed to obey the King and stick together.
c. The Pilgrims renounced their allegiance to the Church of England.
d. The Pilgrims decided to share everything.

8. How many Pilgrims died during the voyage of the Mayflower?

a. 0
b. 1
c. 10
d. 49

9. How many babies were born during the voyage of the Mayflower?

a. 0
b. 1
c. 10
d. 49

10. How many Pilgrims died during their first winter?

a. 0
b. 1
c. 10
d. 49

11. How many Indians did the Pilgrims kill in their first year in America?

a. 0
b. 1
c. 10
d. 49

12. What was Myles Standish’s job?

a. Governor
b. Scribe
c. Military commander
d. Minister

13. Which statement is true?

a. The Pilgrims said the Lord’s Prayer every day.
b. The Pilgrims invented cranberry sauce.
c. The Pilgrims introduced the Indians to fish hooks.
d. The Pilgrims drank a lot of beer.

14. What was William Bradford’s job?

a. Governor
b. Scribe
c. Military commander
d. Minister

15. Where did the Separatists live when they decided to go to America?

a. England
b. Scotland
c. Wales
d. Holland

16. Which best describes the Pilgrims’ first houses?

a. log cabins
b. wattle-and-daub
c. shaky tee-pees
d. holes in the ground

17. Where were the Pilgrims were supposed to settle?

a. Virginia
b. New Amsterdam
c. Jamestown
d. Plymouth

18. What did the Mayflower carry back to England?

a. Nothing. It never went back.
b. lumber, salted fish, furs
c. rocks
d. almost half the Pilgrims

19. Who was Tisquantum?

a. Chief of the Wampanoags
b. Massasoit
c. Squanto
d. Last of the Pokonoket

20. How did the Pilgrims first reach shore?

a. They rowed a shallop.
b. They waded.
c. They stepped onto a rock.
d. The Mayflower ran aground at the beach.

21. Myles Standish shot an eagle. What did it taste like?

a. chicken
b. mutton
c. veal
d. freedom

22. What happened to Dorothy Bradford?

a. She fell off the Mayflower.
b. She nursed the crew back to health.
c. She converted an Indian.
d. She gave birth in Plymouth.

23. The Separatists believed…

a. the King James Bible.
b. the Geneva Bible.
c. the papal bull.
d. the Book of Common Prayer.

24. Who attended the famous harvest feast?

a. More than 100 people.
b. Fifty at most
c. Indians from many tribes
d. All the original Mayflower passengers but one.

25. Why did the Pilgrims hunt for Corbitant?

a. They thought he’d captured Squanto.
b. He had their cranberries.
c. They wanted to make a deal.
d. To invite him to Thanksgiving.

26. Billingtons did three of the following things. Which did none of them do?

a. Get lost in the woods
b. Marry an Indian
c. Almost blow up the Mayflower
d. Hang

27. What happened when Winslow and Hopkins got in bed with Indians?

a. They got bit by fleas.
b. They got chased away.
c. They slept soundly and dreamed well.
d. They spooned the Massachusetts way.

28. Which was aboard the Mayflower?

a. Cows
b. Horses
c. Bees
d. Dogs

29. Who lived in the Plymouth area when the Mayflower arrived?

a. The Wampanoag.
b. The Massachusetts.
c. The Pokonoket.
d. No one

30. How did the Pilgrims bury their first dead?

a. In shallow graves in the sand.
b. Precisely six feet deep.
c. Beneath a cross of lashed sticks.
d. At Indian burial sites.

31. To which king did the Mayflower Compact refer?

a. Jesus.
b. James.
c. Henry.
d. Elizabeth.

32. Which did the Pilgrims never find?

a. the body of a white child
b. abandoned Indian homes
c. gold beads
d. an iron kettle

33. What did the Pilgrims do on Dec. 25,1620?

a. took the day off
b. nothing special
c. spent all day in church
d. drank the last of their beer

34. Who betrayed both Indians and Pilgrims?

a. The Billingtons
b. Squanto
c. Myles Standish
d. King James

35. Which was not served at the famous harvest feast?

a. turkey
b. corn
c. cranberry sauce
d. venison