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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. On what date did Charles I formally dissolve the English Parliament?
(a) March 1, 1642
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) March 10, 1629
(d) August 23, 1630

2. The charter granted to the New England Company in 1628 authorized the company to settle and govern the area from three miles south of the Charles River to what location?
(a) Six miles east of the Mississippi River
(b) Three miles north of the Merrimack River
(c) Four miles east of the Raritan River
(d) Six miles north of the Hudson River

3. When did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony finally order Roger Williams to leave the colony within six weeks?
(a) October, 1635
(b) December, 1632
(c) May, 1629
(d) November, 1638

4. The author describes Anne Hutchinson’s beliefs by saying in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” that, “In Puritan terminology this meant that "sanctification" was no evidence of” what?
(a) Justification
(b) Classification
(c) Edification
(d) Redemption

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of the New England Puritans wanted to destroy the bishops and then let each individual church be sufficient to itself, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

2. Who was chosen by the followers of Anne Hutchinson to serve as the official spokesperson for her views in 1636?

3. 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”?

4. 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"?

5. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?

(see the answer key)

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