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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. The author asserts in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the founding of colonies was notoriously what kind of activity?
(a) A separatist activity
(b) An economically profitable activity
(c) A religious activity
(d) An unprofitable activity

2. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?
(a) Common attorney in Her Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(b) Common attorney in His Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(c) Common attorney in the Parliamentary Court of Wards and Liveries
(d) Common attorney in the People’s Court of Wards and Liveries

3. What term from the book refers to a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, prejudices, and ignorance of the less-educated citizens in order to gain power and promote political motives?
(a) Despotism
(b) Demagogue
(c) Fascist
(d) Synod

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) Charlestown
(b) Cape Sable
(c) Mount Desert
(d) Newtown

5. What pastor in Watertown and Winthrop's neighbor back in England caused problems by teaching that the Roman Catholic Church was a legitimate body of Christians?
(a) Reverend William Blackstone
(b) Reverend George Phillips
(c) Reverend John Wheelwright
(d) Reverend John Wilson

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?

3. What term refers to a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power?

4. What does the author say “was responsible for suppressing heresy as well as drunkenness and theft and murder” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

5. Who was elected deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?

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