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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. Regarding the use of alcohol, the Puritans imposed a self-denying ordinance that forbade what?
(a) The partaking of wine outside of church
(b) The consumption of any type of alcohol
(c) Drinking toasts to one another
(d) The partaking of hard liquors

2. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?
(a) The Arbella
(b) The Lyon
(c) The Queen Mary
(d) The New World

3. What substantial and straightforward freeman from Dorchester drew up a list of arguments against Winthrop’s cause with the General Court, leading Winthrop to ride him down as "a troubler of Israel,” according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?
(a) William Laud
(b) George Phillips
(c) Israel Stoughton
(d) Thomas Fones

4. When was Mary Tudor born?
(a) 1501
(b) 1498
(c) 1516
(d) 1621

5. How many Englishmen were said to have come to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the summer of 1638?
(a) 500
(b) 1,000
(c) 5,000
(d) 3,000

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Anne Hutchinson’s maiden name?

2. 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"?

3. When was John Cotton chosen as the teacher at the Boston church, shortly after his arrival in New England?

4. What was the name of the London apothecary that John Winthrop’s older sister Anne married?

5. Who is said in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” to have observed that many people in Massachusetts “could hardly believe that God would suffer Mr. Cotton to err”?

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