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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. Of the plan developed for governing the proposed colony by the Massachusetts Bay Company, the author says in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England,” “The colony would not be a mere commercial enterprise, nor would it be simply a hiding place from the wrath of God. It would be instead” what?
(a) An idealized model of England but lacking of its corruption and authority
(b) A new start; a blank slate for democracy
(c) The citadel of God’s chosen people, a spearhead of world Protestantism
(d) The promise land of wealth, independence, and liberty

2. At the first meeting summoned by Winthrop in Charlestown, how many assistants were present, in addition to himself and Thomas Dudley?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 7
(d) 10

3. John Winthrop, Jr. considered going to New England with Endecott’s group but instead went on a fourteen-month tour of what region, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) The Mediterranean
(b) Tropical Asia
(c) South America
(d) The Canary Islands

4. Tattershall is described in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England” as the home of whom?
(a) John Haynes
(b) Isaac Johnson
(c) Nathaniel Ward
(d) Roger Williams

5. How many colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?
(a) 120
(b) 500
(c) 300
(d) 150

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?

2. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?

3. The first church within the boundaries of Massachusetts Bay to be founded in the congregational manner was "gathered" on what date, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

4. 93. For how many years does the author say the “human flood swept into Massachusetts, pushing up the rivers, swarming over the champion lands, some twenty thousand souls, and every soul was checked off as saved or damned” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

5. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?

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