Post-Assessment: "Plymouth" and "Verses"

"Of Plymouth Plantation":

Which of the following best explains why the Pilgrims’ relationship with the Indians changed upon meeting Samoset and Squanto?

• A. The Indians did not notice the Pilgrims until Samoset and Squanto spotted them, and vice versa.

• B. Samoset and Squanto’s jobs were to greet and welcome European settlers who had arrived on their land.

• C. The Pilgrims were desperate for food and Samoset and Squanto immediately invited them to a feast.

• D. Samoset and Squanto were the first Indians the Pilgrims met who spoke English and helped ease tensions between the two groups.

"Of Plymouth Plantation":

Which detail best exemplifies the contrast between the Pilgrims’ arrival (chapter 9) and their first winter at Plymouth (chapter 11)?

• A. God led the Pilgrims to the harbor at their arrival, but then God abandoned them during their first winter.

• B. The difficult voyage over only caused one casualty, while the first winter living on the land killed off half of their group.

• C. John Howland nearly drowned during the voyage over, but this experience made Howard one of the group’s leaders and caretakers.

• D. The Pilgrims had no friends to welcome them when the ship landed, but instantly made friends after arriving.

"Of Plymouth Plantation":

What is most likely the author’s intent for including the entirety of the treaty the Pilgrims made with Squanto?

• To emphasize the importance of finding peace with the Indians and take pride in how long the agreement lasted.

• To insist that it is a better treaty than the one that came before it.

• To protect the Pilgrims in case they lose the original document.

• To lay out all of the details of the treaty in order to demonstrate how disappointed the Pilgrims were when Squanto did not uphold them.

"Of Plymouth Plantation":

Which word or phrase best replaces feigned as it is used in the following passage?

• A. wicked people

• B. honest

• C. written

• D. made up

"Of Plymouth Plantation":

Which of the following is most strongly a central idea of “The Starving Time”?

• A. celebrating holidays with family

• B. the importance of finding cures for diseases

• C. faith in times of hardship

• D. staying loyal to your homeland

"Of Plymouth Plantation":

Which statement from the text most strongly supports the answer to the previous question (Which of the following is most strongly a central idea of “The Starving Time?”)?

• A. “So as there died some times two or three of a day in the foresaid time, that of 100 and odd persons, scarce fifty remained.”

• B. “In a word, did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure to hear named;”

• C. “Which made many afterward write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in England, which were not feigned but true reports.”

• D. “And yet the Lord so upheld these persons as in this general calamity they were not at all infected either with sickness or lameness.”

"Of Plymouth Plantation":

Which of these words best describes Squanto, based on his treatment of the Pilgrims in the section “Indian Relations”?

• A. loyal

• B. barbarian

• C. cocky

• D. easygoing

"Of Plymouth Plantation":

Which statement from the text most strongly supports the answer to the previous question (Which of these words best describes Squanto, based on his treatment of the Pilgrims in the section “Indian Relations”)?

• A. “He told them also of another Indian whose name was Squanto, a native of this place, who had been in England and could speak better English than himself.”

• B. “With whom, after friendly entertainment and some gifts given him, they made a peace with him …”

• C. “He directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and never left them till he died.”

• D. “All this while the Indians came skulking about them, and would sometimes show themselves aloof off, but when any approached near them, they would run away; and once they stole away their tools where they had been at work and were gone to dinner.”

"Verses Upon the Burning of Our House":

What mainly happened while the speaker of the poem was sleeping (lines 1-5)?

“In silent night when rest I took,

For sorrow near I did not look,

I wakened was with thundering noise

And piteous shrieks of dreadful voice.

That fearful sound of ‘Fire’ and ‘Fire,’”

• A. The house caught fire.

• B. The speaker awoke and set the house on fire.

• C. The house had been on fire, but the flames have been extinguished.

• D. The speaker is furious she has been awakened by all of the noise.

"Verses Upon the Burning of Our House":

What mainly can the reader infer about the speaker from the following lines (lines 7-10)?

“I, starting up, the light did spy,

And to my God my heart did cry

To strengthen me in my distress,

And not to leave me succorless.”

• A. She is a strict Catholic.

• B. She turns to faith as a source of comfort.

• C. She believes her house will be saved from God’s destruction.

• D. She is praying that no one will be hurt in the fire.