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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: The New England Way.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
(a) Sara
(b) Elizabeth
(c) Lucy
(d) Marie
2. In the spring of 1637, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became involved in a war with what Indian tribe?
(a) The Pequot Indians
(b) The Cherokee Indians
(c) The Mohegan Indians
(d) The Narragansett Indians
3. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1624
(b) 1632
(c) 1616
(d) 1601
4. What individual, who was later to be honored as Cromwell’s chaplain, urged that John Cotton be commissioned to “go through the Bible, and raise marginal notes upon all the knotty places of the scriptures,” according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
(a) John Humfrey
(b) Hugh Peter
(c) William Blackstone
(d) Isaac Johnson
5. 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) William Laud
(b) Thomas Fones
(c) Robert Ryece
(d) Isaac Johnson
Short Answer Questions
1. Of the plan developed for governing the proposed colony by the Massachusetts Bay Company, the author says in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England,” “The colony would not be a mere commercial enterprise, nor would it be simply a hiding place from the wrath of God. It would be instead” what?
2. How old was John Winthrop when he left for college?
3. How many colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?
4. 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?
5. Winthrop warned his constituents in the New World that “when God gives a special Commission, He looks to have” what in return?
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