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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. 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”?
(a) The Calvinists
(b) The royalists
(c) The Presbyterians
(d) The Congregationalists

2. Winthrop warned his constituents in the New World that “when God gives a special Commission, He looks to have” what in return?
(a) It strictly observed in every Article
(b) The wealth of nations and prosperity
(c) Tolerance and minimalism
(d) It looked after by God’s will

3. On what date did John Winthrop and several other prominent Puritans who were interested in emigrating assemble in Lincolnshire to talk it over, according to the author in the beginning of Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) July 16, 1630
(c) October 19, 1630
(d) February 2, 1626

4. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?
(a) Respond to God’s will
(b) Deny grace
(c) Achieve faith and win salvation
(d) Endorse one another’s salvation

5. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?
(a) Isaac Arminus
(b) James Arminus
(c) Elmore Arminian
(d) Jacobus Arminius

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company when John Winthrop went to Cambridge to sign the agreement to be ready by the following March to Embark for New England?

3. The Massachuset, Nauset, and Wampanoag people spoke using what subfamily of Native American languages?

4. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?

5. What minister that lived near Groton Manor and accompanied Winthrop to New England was so obsessed with the need for avoiding separatism that “he declared not only the churches of England but also those of Rome to be true churches”?

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