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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop had allowed the people of Watertown to build a weir where, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) On the Merrimack River
(b) On the Mississippi River
(c) On the Charles River
(d) On the Hudson River

2. In the spring of 1637, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became involved in a war with what Indian tribe?
(a) The Narragansett Indians
(b) The Mohegan Indians
(c) The Pequot Indians
(d) The Cherokee Indians

3. What minister does the author describe in 1633 as giving a lecture in Boston when he was questioned on whether or not women ought to wear veils in church in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend John Wilson
(c) Reverend John Cotton
(d) Reverend John Wheelwright

4. Thomas Dudley had been whose steward in England?
(a) The Duke of Canbury’s
(b) The Duchess of York’s
(c) The Earl if Ipswich’s
(d) The Earl of Lincoln’s

5. How many graduates received diplomas in Harvard College’s first graduating class?
(a) 8
(b) 15
(c) 6
(d) 9

6. Where did Roger Williams go after he became dissatisfied with the church in Plymouth in 1633?
(a) Hartford
(b) Medford
(c) Salem
(d) Portland

7. What individual that later became a leading figure in Connecticut is said to have grown “into passion and said, that then we should have no government, but there would be an interim, wherein every man might do what he pleased” in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) John Haynes
(b) William Blackstone
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) William Bradford

8. According to the king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company, it was ordained that the freemen of the company were to elect a governor, deputy governor, and how many “assistants” every year?
(a) 10
(b) 5
(c) 12
(d) 18

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

10. When did Richard Bellingham arrive in Massachusetts?
(a) 1631
(b) 1645
(c) 1634
(d) 1655

11. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) William Bradford
(c) Roger Williams
(d) Thomas Dudley

12. How old was Henry Vane when he was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636?
(a) 19
(b) 32
(c) 36
(d) 23

13. In the spring of 1637, the author describes the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s involvement in a war with an Indian tribe. Where were the settlers that “bore the brunt of the fighting”?
(a) New Hampshire
(b) Connecticut
(c) Virginia
(d) Maine

14. When was John Cotton chosen as the teacher at the Boston church, shortly after his arrival in New England?
(a) September, 1633
(b) October, 1635
(c) July, 1632
(d) May, 1629

15. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) 1641
(b) 1633
(c) 1631
(d) 1642

Short Answer Questions

1. When John Winthrop found himself in considerable debt, what two friends wrote from London offering to loan him money, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?

2. How old was Nathaniel Ward when he came to Ipswich in 1634?

3. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop had constructed a fort where, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

4. Who is quoted in Chapter 11: “The New England Way” as having said “if the people be governors, who shall be governed?”

5. When Roger Williams first arrived at the colony, what minister and teacher of the Boston church was returning to England to fetch his wife?

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