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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. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that Winthrop soon discovered that the “misdirected zeal” of some of the colonists indicated “that he faced a far more difficult problem to control the good than” to do what?
(a) To control the King
(b) To establish equanimity
(c) To punish the wicked
(d) To control all

2. What individual that later became a leading figure in Connecticut is said to have grown “into passion and said, that then we should have no government, but there would be an interim, wherein every man might do what he pleased” in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) William Blackstone
(b) William Bradford
(c) John Haynes
(d) Roger Ludlow

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

4. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?
(a) King Charles
(b) King James
(c) Queen Mary
(d) Queen Elizabeth

5. What term from the book refers to a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, prejudices, and ignorance of the less-educated citizens in order to gain power and promote political motives?
(a) Despotism
(b) Demagogue
(c) Synod
(d) Fascist

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?

2. Winthrop warned his constituents in the New World that “when God gives a special Commission, He looks to have” what in return?

3. How many years before John Winthrop’s arrival in the New World had Samuel Maverick arrived with his bride and built a house?

4. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635?

5. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?

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