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ACROSS THE WIDE DARK SEA
QUESTIONS

Answer the following questions on a sheet of paper:

  1. What made the Mayflower begin to move?    
  2. Why did the faces of friends grow smaller?    
  3. How many people were there in the ship?   
  4. What kinds of things did they take for the new land?    
  5. What animals were there in the ship?     
  6. How was this family luckier than others?     
  7. What was the boy doing while his family was seasick?    
  8. What were the indicators of a storm coming?    
  9. What happened when the storm broke?    
  10. What kind of food did they eat?    
  11. What did the boy longed to do?     
  12. What happened to a man during the storm?    
  13. What happened when the wind cracked one of the main beams?    
  14. When the water put the mom’s fire out what did they eat?    
  15. What did they start asking each other?       
  16. What happened when hey found land?     
  17. What did a small party of men do when they arrived?      
  18. What did the kid do while others were exploring the land?    
  19. What happened on December?    
  20. What happened next spring?    
  21. What agreements were made with Indians?
  22. What kind of work did the Pilgrims do?    
  23. What happened in April?    
  24. What kind of houses did they have?    
  25. What was the reason the pilgrims came to America?