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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. Of the plan developed for governing the proposed colony by the Massachusetts Bay Company, the author says in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England,” “The colony would not be a mere commercial enterprise, nor would it be simply a hiding place from the wrath of God. It would be instead” what?
(a) An idealized model of England but lacking of its corruption and authority
(b) A new start; a blank slate for democracy
(c) The citadel of God’s chosen people, a spearhead of world Protestantism
(d) The promise land of wealth, independence, and liberty

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

3. 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) George Phillips
(c) John Wheelwright
(d) William Blackstone

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

5. In order to secure the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, an agreement was finally worked out whereby the remaining resources of the company would be managed for seven years by "undertakers." How many of these undertakers would be established in Massachusetts?
(a) 7
(b) 6
(c) 5
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Anne Hutchinson is said to have gained a wide acquaintance in Boston by serving as what, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?

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

4. What minister is quoted in the book as having said of his apprehension of leaving England, “The Lord made me feare my affliction came in part for running too far in a way of separation from the mixt Assemblies in England: tho I blesse God I have ever beleeved that there are true churches in many parishes in England where the Lord sets up able men and ministers of his gospell; and I have abhorred to refuse to heare any able minister in England”?

5. The author describes Anne Hutchinson’s beliefs by saying in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” that, “In Puritan terminology this meant that "sanctification" was no evidence of” what?

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