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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. Whom does the author say in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government” was fined five pounds “for takeing upon him to cure the scurvey by a water of noe worth nor value, which hee solde att a very deare rate”?
(a) George Phillips
(b) Roger Williams
(c) Nicholas Knopp
(d) Nathaniel Ward

2. On what date did John Winthrop marry his second wife?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) December 6, 1615
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) May 15, 1629

3. 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”?
(a) John Humfrey
(b) Hugh Peter
(c) Isaac Johnson
(d) William Blackstone

4. 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) July 28, 1629
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) March 27, 1625

5. On what date did John Winthrop write home to Margaret from London about the prospect of moving to New England, saying, “If the Lord seeth it wil be good for us, he will provide a shelter and a hidinge place for us and ours”?
(a) August 23, 1630
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) February 2, 1626
(d) October 19, 1630

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?

2. What individual that later became a leading figure in Connecticut is said to have grown “into passion and said, that then we should have no government, but there would be an interim, wherein every man might do what he pleased” in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

3. In what famous sermon by John Winthrop, delivered en route to Massachusetts, did he first apply the phrase “City upon a Hill” to the founding of America?

4. 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?

5. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

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