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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 was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) William
(b) James
(c) Samuel
(d) Paul

2. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?
(a) 1588
(b) 1598
(c) 1632
(d) 1625

3. What were the three arrangements that John Winthrop had to oversee once he was voted as governor for the new colony and prior to departure from England?
(a) Ships, provisions, and passengers
(b) Trading routes, financial funds, and communication with the natives
(c) Livestock, housing, and furniture
(d) Ships, the establishment of the mint, and trade routes

4. Anne Hutchinson is said to have gained a wide acquaintance in Boston by serving as what, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
(a) A church leader
(b) A midwife
(c) A baker
(d) A royal servant

5. According to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival,” it cost the better part of what amount of money “to come to New England properly equipped, even if one knew exactly what to bring and what not to bring”?
(a) 100 pounds
(b) 10 pounds
(c) 20 pounds
(d) 50 pounds

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

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. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?

4. What group amongst the New England Puritans “insisted that the bishops be replaced by another organization, with churches and clergy arranged in a pyramidal structure,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

5. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?

(see the answer key)

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