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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: Seventeenth Century Nihilism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What minister that lived near Groton Manor and accompanied Winthrop to New England was so obsessed with the need for avoiding separatism that “he declared not only the churches of England but also those of Rome to be true churches”?
(a) George Phillips
(b) Nicholas Knopp
(c) Nathaniel Ward
(d) Roger Williams

2. Winthrop and his governing assistants seized whose “strong water” because he sold too much of it to other men’s servants, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
(a) Roger Ludlow’s
(b) Richard Clough’s
(c) John Wilson’s
(d) Nathaniel Ward’s

3. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 3

4. What “testy pastor of Ipswich, held himself unworthy to wipe John Cotton’s slippers,” according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) William Blackstone
(c) John Endecott
(d) George Phillips

5. After Winthrop moved the colony headquarters to Charlestown, he summoned the assistants for their first meeting on what date?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) October 19, 1630
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) August 23, 1630

Short Answer Questions

1. When did William and Anne Hutchinson first arrive in Boston?

2. What were the three arrangements that John Winthrop had to oversee once he was voted as governor for the new colony and prior to departure from England?

3. What ordinance was exercised by Winthrop and his assistants regarding firearms and the Indians, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

4. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?

5. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?

(see the answer key)

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