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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: The New England Way.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?
(a) August 26, 1629
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) March 28, 1605
(d) April 29, 1618

2. What word from Chapter 11: “The New England Way” refers to an officer appointed as deputy by and to a sovereign or supreme chief?
(a) Demagogue
(b) Vicegerent
(c) Despotism
(d) Synod

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

4. What pastor in Watertown and Winthrop's neighbor back in England caused problems by teaching that the Roman Catholic Church was a legitimate body of Christians?
(a) Reverend John Wheelwright
(b) Reverend William Blackstone
(c) Reverend George Phillips
(d) Reverend John Wilson

5. Who is described in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed” as the “judicious governor of the colony” at Plymouth that found Roger Williams to be godly and zealous?
(a) John Wilson
(b) Roger Ludlow
(c) John Haynes
(d) William Bradford

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In order to secure the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, an agreement was finally worked out whereby the remaining resources of the company would be managed for seven years by "undertakers." How many of these undertakers would be established in Massachusetts?

3. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?

4. Where was Anne Hutchinson born?

5. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?

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