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

2. In what year did the Antinomian controversy take place?
(a) 1632
(b) 1659
(c) 1642
(d) 1637

3. The charter granted to the New England Company in 1628 authorized the company to settle and govern the area from three miles south of the Charles River to what location?
(a) Four miles east of the Raritan River
(b) Six miles north of the Hudson River
(c) Six miles east of the Mississippi River
(d) Three miles north of the Merrimack River

4. 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 Presbyterians
(b) The Congregationalists
(c) The Roundheads
(d) The Calvinists

5. When did William and Anne Hutchinson first arrive in Boston?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) September 18, 1634

Short Answer Questions

1. After Winthrop moved the colony headquarters to Charlestown, he summoned the assistants for their first meeting on what date?

2. What newcomer to the colony in 1646 attempted to organize the discontented in appealing to Parliament for a Presbyterian Massachusetts, according to the author in Chapter 13: “Foreign Affairs”?

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

4. 93. For how many years does the author say the “human flood swept into Massachusetts, pushing up the rivers, swarming over the champion lands, some twenty thousand souls, and every soul was checked off as saved or damned” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

5. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?

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