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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Separation Unleashed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was elected deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) Roger Williams
(c) John Wilson
(d) Roger Ludlow

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

3. Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?
(a) William Blackstone, Richard Clough, and Nicholas Knopp
(b) Roger Ludlow, John Wilson, and William Bradford
(c) John Humfrey, Isaac Johnson, and Sir Richard Saltonstall
(d) William Bradford, John Haynes, and John Cotton

4. 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) Charlestown
(b) Newtown
(c) Mount Desert
(d) Cape Sable

5. Who had been governing the colony under instruction from the company in England before Winthrop and the others arrived, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
(a) John Endecott
(b) Roger Ludlow
(c) William Bradford
(d) John Haynes

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. In 1629, Roger Williams was chaplain to whom in Essex?

3. When did James I ascend the throne of England?

4. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop had allowed the people of Watertown to build a weir where, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

5. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?

(see the answer key)

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