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

2. What did the Puritans believe “was the mother of heresy,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) Lust
(b) Knowledge
(c) Ignorance
(d) Government

3. What well-known Suffolk antiquary and friend of Winthrop told him of going to the New World, "The church and common welthe heere at home, hath more neede of your best abyllitie in these dangerous tymes, than any remote plantation"?
(a) Thomas Fones
(b) Robert Ryece
(c) William Laud
(d) Isaac Johnson

4. What was the name of the London apothecary that John Winthrop’s older sister Anne married?
(a) George Phillips
(b) John Endecott
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) Thomas Shepard

5. 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) June 11, 1630
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) April 29, 1618

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the approximate distance between London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts?

2. When did James I ascend the throne of England?

3. The narrator says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place that in New England” that a group of separatists had been living at Plymouth since what year?

4. 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?

5. The author says of Winthrop in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that he “did not aim at power for the sake of power, but he longed to” do what?

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