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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. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) Isaac Johnson
(b) William Laud
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) George Abbott
2. 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
3. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) October 20, 1629
(d) February 2, 1626
4. 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) February 2, 1626
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) October 19, 1630
5. Of the plan developed for governing the proposed colony by the Massachusetts Bay Company, the author says in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England,” “The colony would not be a mere commercial enterprise, nor would it be simply a hiding place from the wrath of God. It would be instead” what?
(a) A new start; a blank slate for democracy
(b) The promise land of wealth, independence, and liberty
(c) An idealized model of England but lacking of its corruption and authority
(d) The citadel of God’s chosen people, a spearhead of world Protestantism
Short Answer Questions
1. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?
2. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?
3. The first glimpse that the Puritans aboard John Winthrop’s ships got of New England was the hills of what Maine town, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
4. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?
5. 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”?
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