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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. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 5
(b) 7
(c) 2
(d) 6

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

3. What minister does the author describe in 1633 as giving a lecture in Boston when he was questioned on whether or not women ought to wear veils in church in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) Reverend John Wheelwright
(b) Reverend John Cotton
(c) Reverend George Phillips
(d) Reverend John Wilson

4. Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company when John Winthrop went to Cambridge to sign the agreement to be ready by the following March to Embark for New England?
(a) William Bradford
(b) John Wilson
(c) John Haynes
(d) Matthew Cradock

5. What “testy pastor of Ipswich, held himself unworthy to wipe John Cotton’s slippers,” according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
(a) George Phillips
(b) Nathaniel Ward
(c) William Blackstone
(d) John Endecott

Short Answer Questions

1. Since what year had there been a fairly substantial group of colonists at Cape Ann, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

2. What minister is quoted in the book as having said of his apprehension of leaving England, “The Lord made me feare my affliction came in part for running too far in a way of separation from the mixt Assemblies in England: tho I blesse God I have ever beleeved that there are true churches in many parishes in England where the Lord sets up able men and ministers of his gospell; and I have abhorred to refuse to heare any able minister in England”?

3. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop lent twenty-eight pounds of what to Plymouth colony without authorization, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

4. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?

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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