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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men with university training are known to have been in New England in 1641?
(a) 114
(b) 201
(c) 59
(d) 313

2. 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”?
(a) Brampton Gurdon and Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston
(b) Matthew Cradock and John Humfrey
(c) Robert Ryece and William Laud
(d) Jacobus Arminius and John Preston

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

4. What was the name of Anne Hutchinson’s brother-in-law that was a minister whom she admired?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend John Preston
(c) Reverend John Humfrey
(d) Reverend John Wheelwright

5. 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 let the Indians see firearms
(c) It was forbidden to sell firearms to the Indians
(d) It was forbidden to use firearms against the Indians

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Cambridge, Massachusetts called during the first winter when the colonists decided to build their houses there in 1630?

2. Where did Anne Hutchinson go with her followers after she was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

3. When was John Cotton chosen as the teacher at the Boston church, shortly after his arrival in New England?

4. When Roger Williams was first offered a position as minister at the Salem church, John Winthrop wrote to whom, marveling that they would choose a teacher with such dangerous views?

5. What pastor in Watertown and Winthrop's neighbor back in England caused problems by teaching that the Roman Catholic Church was a legitimate body of Christians?

Short Essay Questions

1. What decision did John Winthrop make regarding the English Civil War? Why?

2. What power did the clergy have in the Massachusetts settlement, according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?

3. What were John Winthrop’s feelings about Roger Williams, according to the author in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?

4. How does the author describe the changes in the colony during the years when John Winthrop was overthrown as governor in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?

5. When was the “Body of Liberties” adopted in Massachusetts? What did this document contain?

6. Why did John Winthrop want to retire from government in 1640, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?

7. What forced John Winthrop to reveal the stipulations of the charter to the colonists, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

8. How did the Puritans perceive the relationship between church and state, according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?

9. What did the representatives learn when they studied the charter in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

10. When did Anne and William Hutchinson arrive in New England? How does the author describe them in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?

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