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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. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?
(a) 1620
(b) 1600
(c) 1615
(d) 1629

2. When did Mary Tudor die?
(a) 1660
(b) 1625
(c) 1558
(d) 1498

3. 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) October 19, 1630
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) August 23, 1630
(d) February 2, 1626

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

5. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop had constructed a fort where, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) In Medford
(b) In Merrimack
(c) In Boston
(d) In Salem

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is said to have “removed himself to the Narragansett country, remarking that he had left England because he did not like the Lord Bishops and found the rule of the Lord Brethren no better” in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

3. 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”?

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

5. The author begins Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked” with the assertion, “The great advantage of the government which Winthrop established in Massachusetts was” what?

(see the answer key)

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