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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 term refers to a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power?
(a) Despotism
(b) Synod
(c) Democracy
(d) Demagogue
2. On what date did Charles I formally dissolve the English Parliament?
(a) March 10, 1629
(b) August 23, 1630
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) March 1, 1642
3. Who wrote to Winthrop in a letter, regarding the ordinances in the colony, that by treating temptation as a sin, it was making “more sins than (as yet is seene) God himself hath made,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) Thomas Shepard
(b) Roger Ludlow
(c) Nicholas Knopp
(d) William Bradford
4. Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?
(a) Roger Ludlow, John Wilson, and William Bradford
(b) John Humfrey, Isaac Johnson, and Sir Richard Saltonstall
(c) William Bradford, John Haynes, and John Cotton
(d) William Blackstone, Richard Clough, and Nicholas Knopp
5. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?
(a) March 27, 1625
(b) April 29, 1618
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) April 7, 1630
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
2. When did Mary Tudor die?
3. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?
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”?
5. On what date did John Winthrop and several other prominent Puritans who were interested in emigrating assemble in Lincolnshire to talk it over, according to the author in the beginning of Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?
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