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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. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) Guilford Manor
(b) Epperson Manor
(c) Groton Manor
(d) Tattershall

2. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?
(a) He married a Roman Catholic
(b) He married a Jew
(c) He married a Presbyterian
(d) He married a Calvinist

3. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?
(a) 25
(b) 30
(c) 40
(d) 35

4. In the spring of 1637, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became involved in a war with what Indian tribe?
(a) The Pequot Indians
(b) The Narragansett Indians
(c) The Mohegan Indians
(d) The Cherokee Indians

5. How many years before John Winthrop’s arrival in the New World had Samuel Maverick arrived with his bride and built a house?
(a) 1 year before
(b) 3 years before
(c) 10 years before
(d) 6 years before

Short Answer Questions

1. In the spring of 1637, the author describes the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s involvement in a war with an Indian tribe. Where were the settlers that “bore the brunt of the fighting”?

2. What did the Puritans believe “was the mother of heresy,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

3. Who is described as “one of the Puritans’ most illustrious preachers” and spoke before the House of Commons in the summer of 1625?

4. When did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony finally order Roger Williams to leave the colony within six weeks?

5. 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?

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