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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. When did James I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1698
(b) 1567
(c) 1598
(d) 1625

2. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?
(a) 1588
(b) 1598
(c) 1625
(d) 1632

3. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?
(a) Isaac Arminus
(b) Jacobus Arminius
(c) Elmore Arminian
(d) James Arminus

4. What group amongst the New England Puritans “insisted that the bishops be replaced by another organization, with churches and clergy arranged in a pyramidal structure,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The Congregationalists
(b) The Calvinists
(c) The royalists
(d) The Presbyterians

5. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?
(a) July 16, 1630
(b) August 26, 1629
(c) March 27, 1625
(d) February 2, 1626

Short Answer Questions

1. Roger Williams first arrived in the New World aboard what ship?

2. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?

3. The author says of Winthrop in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that he “did not aim at power for the sake of power, but he longed to” do what?

4. Where did Roger Williams go after he became dissatisfied with the church in Plymouth in 1633?

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

(see the answer key)

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