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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. 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?
(a) On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry
(b) A Model of Christian Charity
(c) Approbate Consuetudinis
(d) Peak of Eloquence
2. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 2
(b) 6
(c) 5
(d) 7
3. 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) John Endecott
(b) William Blackstone
(c) George Phillips
(d) Nathaniel Ward
4. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?
(a) March 27, 1625
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) April 29, 1618
5. 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”?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) Nicholas Knopp
(c) Roger Williams
(d) George Phillips
Short Answer Questions
1. 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”?
2. What were the three arrangements that John Winthrop had to oversee once he was voted as governor for the new colony and prior to departure from England?
3. Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?
4. Where was Anne Hutchinson born?
5. After Winthrop moved the colony headquarters to Charlestown, he summoned the assistants for their first meeting on what date?
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