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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 colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?
(a) 300
(b) 150
(c) 120
(d) 500

2. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Cape Sable
(b) Barbados
(c) New Hampshire
(d) Connecticut

3. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) 1641
(b) 1631
(c) 1642
(d) 1633

4. What did the Puritans believe “was the mother of heresy,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) Ignorance
(b) Lust
(c) Knowledge
(d) Government

5. 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”?
(a) 1,000 pounds
(b) 550 pounds
(c) 2,500 pounds
(d) 3,000 pounds

Short Answer Questions

1. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?

2. What does the author say “was responsible for suppressing heresy as well as drunkenness and theft and murder” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

3. The author describes Anne Hutchinson’s beliefs by saying in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” that, “In Puritan terminology this meant that "sanctification" was no evidence of” what?

4. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed,” John Winthrop believed that the most effective weapons against separatism were “argument, admonition, and” what?

(see the answer key)

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