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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: A Special Commission.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Cape Sable
(b) Mount Desert
(c) Charlestown
(d) Newtown

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

3. What does the author say “was responsible for suppressing heresy as well as drunkenness and theft and murder” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The state
(b) The jury
(c) The church
(d) The crown

4. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
(a) Elizabeth
(b) Sara
(c) Lucy
(d) Marie

5. On what date did John Winthrop pen a letter to his wife Margaret that said, “Yet for all these thinges (I prayse my God) I am not discouraged, nor doe I see cause to repent, or dispaire of those good dayes heere, which will make amends for all”?
(a) March 28, 1605
(b) July 16, 1630
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) March 10, 1629

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the founding of colonies was notoriously what kind of activity?

2. When was Mary Tudor born?

3. In order to secure the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, an agreement was finally worked out whereby the remaining resources of the company would be managed for seven years by "undertakers." How many of these undertakers would be established in Massachusetts?

4. 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?

5. 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”?

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