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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 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) Hugh Peter
(b) John Humfrey
(c) Isaac Johnson
(d) William Blackstone
2. What was Anne Hutchinson’s maiden name?
(a) Anne Cradock
(b) Anne Endecott
(c) Anne Marbury
(d) Anne Blackstone
3. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) 1641
(b) 1642
(c) 1631
(d) 1633
4. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?
(a) Queen Mary
(b) King James I
(c) King Charles I
(d) Queen Elizabeth I
5. The author states in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government,” that when Winthrop and eleven other members of the Massachusetts Bay Company met “on August 26, 1629, they agreed to go to New England if the charter and headquarters of the company could be transferred with them.” How many of the twelve kept their pledge, arriving with Winthrop or shortly after?
(a) 8
(b) 10
(c) 5
(d) 7
Short Answer Questions
1. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?
2. Regarding the use of alcohol, the Puritans imposed a self-denying ordinance that forbade what?
3. What minister is quoted in the book as having said of his apprehension of leaving England, “The Lord made me feare my affliction came in part for running too far in a way of separation from the mixt Assemblies in England: tho I blesse God I have ever beleeved that there are true churches in many parishes in England where the Lord sets up able men and ministers of his gospell; and I have abhorred to refuse to heare any able minister in England”?
4. In 1629, Roger Williams was chaplain to whom in Essex?
5. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
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