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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. What word from Chapter 11: “The New England Way” refers to an officer appointed as deputy by and to a sovereign or supreme chief?
(a) Demagogue
(b) Synod
(c) Vicegerent
(d) Despotism

2. In the spring of 1637, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became involved in a war with what Indian tribe?
(a) The Pequot Indians
(b) The Narragansett Indians
(c) The Cherokee Indians
(d) The Mohegan Indians

3. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Cape Sable
(b) Mount Desert
(c) Newtown
(d) Charlestown

4. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 2

5. What minister is quoted in the book as having said of his apprehension of leaving England, “The Lord made me feare my affliction came in part for running too far in a way of separation from the mixt Assemblies in England: tho I blesse God I have ever beleeved that there are true churches in many parishes in England where the Lord sets up able men and ministers of his gospell; and I have abhorred to refuse to heare any able minister in England”?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) Nicholas Knopp
(c) Roger Williams
(d) Thomas Shepard

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John Winthrop enroll to study law in 1613?

2. The amount of debts that John Winthrop ended up with as a result of James Luxford’s actions was how much, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?

3. 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”?

4. On what date did John Winthrop pen a letter to his wife Margaret that said, “Yet for all these thinges (I prayse my God) I am not discouraged, nor doe I see cause to repent, or dispaire of those good dayes heere, which will make amends for all”?

5. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?

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