1. 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 Mississippi River
(d) On the Hudson River

2. What term from Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” refers to one who holds that under the gospel, dispensation of grace is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation”?
(a) A conversionist
(b) An anarchist
(c) A Presbyterian
(d) An antinomian

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

4. What substantial and straightforward freeman from Dorchester drew up a list of arguments against Winthrop’s cause with the General Court, leading Winthrop to ride him down as "a troubler of Israel,” according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?
(a) George Phillips
(b) Israel Stoughton
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) William Laud

5. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?
(a) Queen Elizabeth I
(b) King James I
(c) King Charles I
(d) Queen Mary

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says of John Winthrop in Chapter 13: “Foreign Affairs,” “His most daring foreign adventure was in playing off two Frenchmen against each other.” The two Frenchmen who both claimed the governorship of Acadia were Charles de Saint Etienne de la Tour and whom?

2. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?

3. How old was Nathaniel Ward when he came to Ipswich in 1634?

4. When did Richard Bellingham arrive in Massachusetts?

5. Oliver Cromwell was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdon in what year?

(see the answer key)

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