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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. Who was elected deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) John Wilson
(b) Roger Williams
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) Nathaniel Ward

2. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?
(a) William Laud
(b) Thomas Dudley
(c) Isaac Johnson
(d) John Endecott

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

4. The first church within the boundaries of Massachusetts Bay to be founded in the congregational manner was "gathered" on what date, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) December 6, 1615
(b) July 20, 1629
(c) March 28, 1605
(d) May 15, 1629

5. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?
(a) Deny grace
(b) Endorse one another’s salvation
(c) Respond to God’s will
(d) Achieve faith and win salvation

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

2. 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"?

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”?

4. Upon arriving in the New World, John Winthrop’s shops sailed through the channel between Bakers Island and Little Island and cast anchor where, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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