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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: Foreign Affairs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was elected deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) John Wilson
(b) Roger Ludlow
(c) Nathaniel Ward
(d) Roger Williams

2. How old was John Winthrop when he left for college?
(a) 17
(b) 15
(c) 16
(d) 18

3. What was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) Samuel
(b) William
(c) James
(d) Paul

4. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?
(a) Trinity College, Cambridge
(b) Oxford College, London
(c) Abingdon and Witney College
(d) Aylesbury College

5. The king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company ordained that the freemen of the company were to meet how many times per year in a “Great and General Court”?
(a) 6
(b) 12
(c) 8
(d) 4

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?

3. How many Englishmen were said to have come to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the summer of 1638?

4. Who is said to have warned Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place,” saying "The pipe goeth sweete tyll the Byrde be in the nett, many bewtifull hopes are sett before your eyes to allewer you to danger"?

5. When was John Calvin born?

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