The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop Quiz | One Week Quiz A

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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. 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

2. After Winthrop moved the colony headquarters to Charlestown, he summoned the assistants for their first meeting on what date?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) August 23, 1630
(d) October 19, 1630

3. When was John Cotton chosen as the teacher at the Boston church, shortly after his arrival in New England?
(a) May, 1629
(b) October, 1635
(c) July, 1632
(d) September, 1633

4. What term from Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” refers to one who holds that under the gospel, dispensation of grace is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation”?
(a) A Presbyterian
(b) A conversionist
(c) An anarchist
(d) An antinomian

5. What was Anne Hutchinson’s maiden name?
(a) Anne Blackstone
(b) Anne Marbury
(c) Anne Endecott
(d) Anne Cradock

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop and several other prominent Puritans who were interested in emigrating assemble in Lincolnshire to talk it over, according to the author in the beginning of Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

2. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?

3. 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?

4. Who is said in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” to have observed that many people in Massachusetts “could hardly believe that God would suffer Mr. Cotton to err”?

5. 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”?

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