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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 was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?
(a) The Queen Mary
(b) The New World
(c) The Lyon
(d) The Arbella

2. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?
(a) August 26, 1629
(b) March 27, 1625
(c) July 16, 1630
(d) February 2, 1626

3. Who was chosen by the followers of Anne Hutchinson to serve as the official spokesperson for her views in 1636?
(a) John Wheelwright
(b) Thomas Dudley
(c) Thomas Shepard
(d) George Phillips

4. Who is said to have “removed himself to the Narragansett country, remarking that he had left England because he did not like the Lord Bishops and found the rule of the Lord Brethren no better” in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) William Blackstone
(c) George Phillips
(d) John Wheelwright

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. 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?

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

5. In what famous sermon by John Winthrop, delivered en route to Massachusetts, did he first apply the phrase “City upon a Hill” to the founding of America?

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