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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. How many men, women, and children were aboard the four ships of John Winthrop’s fleet that first arrived in the New World on the Massachusetts Bay Charter?
(a) 200
(b) 300
(c) 250
(d) 400

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

3. On what date did John Winthrop’s ships pass the Isles of Shoals, where a ship lay at anchor, upon arriving in the New World?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) June 11, 1630
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) April 29, 1618

4. 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"?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) Robert Ryece
(c) William Bradford
(d) Roger Williams

5. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) George Abbott
(b) William Laud
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) Isaac Johnson

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?

2. What did the Puritans believe “was the mother of heresy,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

3. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?

4. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop lent twenty-eight pounds of what to Plymouth colony without authorization, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

5. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?

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