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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 was John Cotton chosen as the teacher at the Boston church, shortly after his arrival in New England?
(a) July, 1632
(b) May, 1629
(c) October, 1635
(d) September, 1633

2. According to the king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company, it was ordained that the freemen of the company were to elect a governor, deputy governor, and how many “assistants” every year?
(a) 10
(b) 5
(c) 12
(d) 18

3. The first glimpse that the Puritans aboard John Winthrop’s ships got of New England was the hills of what Maine town, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Mount Desert
(b) Portland
(c) Chestershire
(d) Marymount

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 royalists
(b) The Calvinists
(c) The Presbyterians
(d) The Congregationalists

5. 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”?
(a) On the Merrimack River
(b) On the Charles River
(c) On the Hudson River
(d) On the Mississippi River

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?

3. The author describes Anne Hutchinson’s beliefs by saying in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” that, “In Puritan terminology this meant that "sanctification" was no evidence of” what?

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

5. How many men, women, and children were aboard the four ships of John Winthrop’s fleet that first arrived in the New World on the Massachusetts Bay Charter?

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