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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: The New England Way.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The author states in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government,” that when Winthrop and eleven other members of the Massachusetts Bay Company met “on August 26, 1629, they agreed to go to New England if the charter and headquarters of the company could be transferred with them.” How many of the twelve kept their pledge, arriving with Winthrop or shortly after?
(a) 8
(b) 10
(c) 7
(d) 5
2. 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”?
(a) It was forbidden to purchase firearms from the Indians
(b) It was forbidden to use firearms against the Indians
(c) It was forbidden to let the Indians see firearms
(d) It was forbidden to sell firearms to the Indians
3. Who was elected deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) Roger Ludlow
(c) John Wilson
(d) Nathaniel Ward
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) 4
(b) 6
(c) 12
(d) 8
5. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?
(a) Common attorney in the Parliamentary Court of Wards and Liveries
(b) Common attorney in Her Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(c) Common attorney in the People’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(d) Common attorney in His Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
2. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
3. What term refers to a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power?
4. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?
5. When was John Calvin born?
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