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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. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 2
2. Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company when John Winthrop went to Cambridge to sign the agreement to be ready by the following March to Embark for New England?
(a) William Bradford
(b) John Wilson
(c) John Haynes
(d) Matthew Cradock
3. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) October 20, 1629
(d) July 28, 1629
4. 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?
(a) 10
(b) 7
(c) 5
(d) 8
5. On what date did John Winthrop summon at Charlestown the first meeting labeled in the records as a General Court?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) March 27, 1625
(c) October 19, 1630
(d) April 29, 1618
Short Answer Questions
1. After Winthrop moved the colony headquarters to Charlestown, he summoned the assistants for their first meeting on what date?
2. Tattershall is described in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England” as the home of whom?
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”?
4. Who had been governing the colony under instruction from the company in England before Winthrop and the others arrived, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
5. Winthrop and his governing assistants seized whose “strong water” because he sold too much of it to other men’s servants, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
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