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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. 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"?
(a) William Bradford
(b) Roger Williams
(c) Nathaniel Ward
(d) Robert Ryece

2. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop had constructed a fort where, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) In Medford
(b) In Merrimack
(c) In Salem
(d) In Boston

3. Who is quoted in Chapter 11: “The New England Way” as having said “if the people be governors, who shall be governed?”
(a) George Phillips
(b) Henry Winthrop
(c) John Cotton
(d) Thomas Shepard

4. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?
(a) The St. James Charter Company
(b) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(c) The Plymouth Company
(d) The Dorchester Company

5. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1632
(b) 1624
(c) 1601
(d) 1616

Short Answer Questions

1. When did William and Anne Hutchinson first arrive in Boston?

2. According to the king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company, it was ordained that the freemen of the company were to elect a governor, deputy governor, and how many “assistants” every year?

3. Of whom does the author say in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times,” “[T]heir defiance was also a desertion. They failed their fellow men. They abandoned a charity to which the Puritans held fast”?

4. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?

5. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?

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