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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 was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) James
(b) Paul
(c) Samuel
(d) William

2. Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company when John Winthrop went to Cambridge to sign the agreement to be ready by the following March to Embark for New England?
(a) William Bradford
(b) Matthew Cradock
(c) John Haynes
(d) John Wilson

3. Where was Anne Hutchinson born?
(a) Walsall, Stafford, England
(b) Rochdale, Macclesfield, England
(c) Redditch, Worcester, England
(d) Alford, Lincolnshire, England

4. The king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company ordained that the freemen of the company were to meet how many times per year in a “Great and General Court”?
(a) 8
(b) 6
(c) 4
(d) 12

5. What was Anne Hutchinson’s maiden name?
(a) Anne Blackstone
(b) Anne Endecott
(c) Anne Marbury
(d) Anne Cradock

Short Answer Questions

1. What term from Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” refers to one who holds that under the gospel, dispensation of grace is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation”?

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

3. What was the name of Anne Hutchinson’s brother-in-law that was a minister whom she admired?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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