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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Leniency Rebuked.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Cape Sable
(b) Barbados
(c) Connecticut
(d) New Hampshire

2. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
(a) Sara
(b) Marie
(c) Lucy
(d) Elizabeth

3. Regarding the use of alcohol, the Puritans imposed a self-denying ordinance that forbade what?
(a) Drinking toasts to one another
(b) The consumption of any type of alcohol
(c) The partaking of wine outside of church
(d) The partaking of hard liquors

4. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Cape Sable
(b) Newtown
(c) Charlestown
(d) Mount Desert

5. What term refers to a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application?
(a) Catechism
(b) Fraternity
(c) Synod
(d) Antibody

Short Answer Questions

1. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?

2. What was Cambridge, Massachusetts called during the first winter when the colonists decided to build their houses there in 1630?

3. When did Mary Tudor die?

4. The author begins Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked” with the assertion, “The great advantage of the government which Winthrop established in Massachusetts was” what?

5. Who is said to have warned Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place,” saying "The pipe goeth sweete tyll the Byrde be in the nett, many bewtifull hopes are sett before your eyes to allewer you to danger"?

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