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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. How many of the previous Salem settlers had died in the preceding winter when John Winthrop arrived with his fleet, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) 80
(b) 20
(c) 50
(d) 200

2. Who is said in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” to have observed that many people in Massachusetts “could hardly believe that God would suffer Mr. Cotton to err”?
(a) Henry Winthrop
(b) Thomas Dudley
(c) George Phillips
(d) Roger Williams

3. At the first meeting summoned by Winthrop in Charlestown, how many assistants were present, in addition to himself and Thomas Dudley?
(a) 3
(b) 7
(c) 5
(d) 10

4. How old was Nathaniel Ward when he came to Ipswich in 1634?
(a) 55
(b) 42
(c) 29
(d) 49

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?
(a) 1629
(b) 1659
(c) 1616
(d) 1598

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?

3. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?

4. In the spring of 1637, the author describes the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s involvement in a war with an Indian tribe. Where were the settlers that “bore the brunt of the fighting”?

5. The first church within the boundaries of Massachusetts Bay to be founded in the congregational manner was "gathered" on what date, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

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