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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 minister that lived near Groton Manor and accompanied Winthrop to New England was so obsessed with the need for avoiding separatism that “he declared not only the churches of England but also those of Rome to be true churches”?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) Nathaniel Ward
(c) George Phillips
(d) Nicholas Knopp

2. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) October 20, 1629

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 sell firearms to the Indians
(c) It was forbidden to use firearms against the Indians
(d) It was forbidden to purchase firearms from the Indians

4. What individual, who was later to be honored as Cromwell’s chaplain, urged that John Cotton be commissioned to “go through the Bible, and raise marginal notes upon all the knotty places of the scriptures,” according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
(a) William Blackstone
(b) Isaac Johnson
(c) Hugh Peter
(d) John Humfrey

5. What “testy pastor of Ipswich, held himself unworthy to wipe John Cotton’s slippers,” according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
(a) George Phillips
(b) John Endecott
(c) William Blackstone
(d) Nathaniel Ward

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. At the first meeting summoned by Winthrop in Charlestown, how many assistants were present, in addition to himself and Thomas Dudley?

3. Tattershall is described in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England” as the home of whom?

4. Whom does the author say in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government” was fined five pounds “for takeing upon him to cure the scurvey by a water of noe worth nor value, which hee solde att a very deare rate”?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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