i would like to know what's the different between the two questions i know that the answer for the first question is plymouth but is the second question is it asking the same answer or what i am confused >?????

The permanent settlement in new England was ...
1.Plymouth
2.Providence
3.Boston
4.Bar Harbor

the first permanent settlement in North America was..
1.plymouth
2.savanna
3.Jamestown
4.philadelphia

3 answers

New England is only a small part of North America. The first permanent settlement in North America was established by the Spanish in 1565. However that town is not one of your possible answers.

http://annenbergmedia.org/biographyofamerica/prog02/feature/index_text.html

The questioner must mean the first English settlement in North America.

That settlement was established in Virginia in 1607.
Look at the dates each of the places in #2 were settled.
Make sure you look up Jamestown VIRGINIA though, not Rhode Island or something!