Question 1
The Puritan founders in Massachusetts who described their colony as a city upon a hill
A. sought to create a community in which all people were treated as equals.
B. wanted to construct their community on high ground to save it from Indian attacks.
C. wanted to create a community that would be open to all peoples of all faiths.
D. wanted to differentiate their community from the materialism and acquisitiveness of New Haven.
E. felt they were creating a holy community that would be a model for the world.
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Question 2
During the early years, the survival and growth of the Plymouth colony
A. was due in large part to the assistance of the natives.
B. led the colonists to grow rich from the surrounding productive farmlands.
C. was critically important for trade routes with Jamestown to the south.
D. nevertheless saw two-thirds of its population die.
E. saw the colonists carry out warfare that wiped out much of the local Indian population.
Question 3
In 1620, the Puritan Pilgrims who came to North America
A. hoped to create their ideal close-knit Christian community.
B. enjoyed a particularly mild winter their first year.
C. came over the objections of the Virginia colony.
D. were seeking to escape military service in England.
E. intended to settle at Cape Cod.
Pacific Silver Fir cone debris from feeding Douglas Squirrels, North Cascades National Park
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The Great Lakes— America’s “Fourth Coast”
The Pyramid of the Moon, looking north up the Avenue of the Dead.
Pulling a skewer through chocolate and raspberry-sauce dots to create a border of hearts