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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. What individual that later became a leading figure in Connecticut is said to have grown “into passion and said, that then we should have no government, but there would be an interim, wherein every man might do what he pleased” in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) William Bradford
(b) Roger Ludlow
(c) William Blackstone
(d) John Haynes

2. John Winthrop, Jr. considered going to New England with Endecott’s group but instead went on a fourteen-month tour of what region, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) The Canary Islands
(b) South America
(c) The Mediterranean
(d) Tropical Asia

3. On what date did John Winthrop pen a letter to his wife Margaret that said, “Yet for all these thinges (I prayse my God) I am not discouraged, nor doe I see cause to repent, or dispaire of those good dayes heere, which will make amends for all”?
(a) July 16, 1630
(b) March 10, 1629
(c) March 28, 1605
(d) July 28, 1629

4. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that by 1635, “a dozen churches were scattered round the bay from Hingham to” where?
(a) Salem
(b) Newbury
(c) Plum Cove
(d) Medford

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

3. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?

4. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?

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

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