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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: Foreign Affairs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The amount of debts that John Winthrop ended up with as a result of James Luxford’s actions was how much, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?
(a) 1,000 pounds
(b) 550 pounds
(c) 3,000 pounds
(d) 2,500 pounds

2. What group of the New England Puritans wanted to destroy the bishops and then let each individual church be sufficient to itself, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The Congregationalists
(b) The Calvinists
(c) The Presbyterians
(d) The Roundheads

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”?
(a) It was forbidden to let the Indians see firearms
(b) It was forbidden to purchase firearms from the Indians
(c) It was forbidden to use firearms against the Indians
(d) It was forbidden to sell firearms to the Indians

4. On what date did John Winthrop write home to Margaret from London about the prospect of moving to New England, saying, “If the Lord seeth it wil be good for us, he will provide a shelter and a hidinge place for us and ours”?
(a) October 19, 1630
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) August 23, 1630

5. Of whom does the author say in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times,” “[T]heir defiance was also a desertion. They failed their fellow men. They abandoned a charity to which the Puritans held fast”?
(a) The Congregationalists
(b) The Calvinists
(c) The Presbyterians
(d) The separatists

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?

2. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?

3. How many men, women, and children were aboard the four ships of John Winthrop’s fleet that first arrived in the New World on the Massachusetts Bay Charter?

4. The narrator says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place that in New England” that a group of separatists had been living at Plymouth since what year?

5. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?

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