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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 Anne Hutchinson’s brother-in-law that was a minister whom she admired?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend John Wheelwright
(c) Reverend John Humfrey
(d) Reverend John Preston

2. What minister does the author describe in 1633 as giving a lecture in Boston when he was questioned on whether or not women ought to wear veils in church in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend John Wheelwright
(c) Reverend John Cotton
(d) Reverend John Wilson

3. The author says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the idea of going to the New World was not novel in Winthrop’s time. Englishman “had drifted back and forth between England and the wilderness across the water” for over how many years?
(a) 10
(b) 60
(c) 40
(d) 20

4. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that by 1635, “a dozen churches were scattered round the bay from Hingham to” where?
(a) Newbury
(b) Salem
(c) Medford
(d) Plum Cove

5. In what famous sermon by John Winthrop, delivered en route to Massachusetts, did he first apply the phrase “City upon a Hill” to the founding of America?
(a) Approbate Consuetudinis
(b) On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry
(c) Peak of Eloquence
(d) A Model of Christian Charity

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Cambridge, Massachusetts called during the first winter when the colonists decided to build their houses there in 1630?

2. Where was Anne Hutchinson born?

3. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?

4. The author begins Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked” with the assertion, “The great advantage of the government which Winthrop established in Massachusetts was” what?

5. The author states in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government,” that when Winthrop and eleven other members of the Massachusetts Bay Company met “on August 26, 1629, they agreed to go to New England if the charter and headquarters of the company could be transferred with them.” How many of the twelve kept their pledge, arriving with Winthrop or shortly after?

(see the answer key)

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