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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. After Winthrop moved the colony headquarters to Charlestown, he summoned the assistants for their first meeting on what date?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) October 19, 1630
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) August 23, 1630

2. On what date did John Winthrop’s ships pass the Isles of Shoals, where a ship lay at anchor, upon arriving in the New World?
(a) June 11, 1630
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) February 2, 1626

3. What group of the New England Puritans wanted to destroy the bishops and then let each individual church be sufficient to itself, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The Presbyterians
(b) The Congregationalists
(c) The Roundheads
(d) The Calvinists

4. 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 Bradford, John Haynes, and John Cotton
(b) William Blackstone, Richard Clough, and Nicholas Knopp
(c) Roger Ludlow, John Wilson, and William Bradford
(d) John Humfrey, Isaac Johnson, and Sir Richard Saltonstall

5. The author asserts in the beginning of Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed” that “As long as Winthrop held the reins of government he held them” how?
(a) Distractedly
(b) Lightly
(c) Tightly
(d) Loosely

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?

3. 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?

4. The charter granted to the New England Company in 1628 authorized the company to settle and govern the area from three miles south of the Charles River to what location?

5. On what date did John Winthrop summon at Charlestown the first meeting labeled in the records as a General Court?

(see the answer key)

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