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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. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?
(a) Respond to God’s will
(b) Achieve faith and win salvation
(c) Deny grace
(d) Endorse one another’s salvation

2. What group of the New England Puritans wanted to destroy the bishops and then let each individual church be sufficient to itself, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The Calvinists
(b) The Congregationalists
(c) The Presbyterians
(d) The Roundheads

3. What term refers to a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application?
(a) Antibody
(b) Catechism
(c) Fraternity
(d) Synod

4. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?
(a) Butcher
(b) Chancery judge
(c) Wheat farmer
(d) Common attorney

5. 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) Plum Cove
(b) Medford
(c) Newbury
(d) Salem

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Mary Tudor die?

2. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?

3. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?

4. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?

5. When did William and Anne Hutchinson first arrive in Boston?

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