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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. Who was chosen by the followers of Anne Hutchinson to serve as the official spokesperson for her views in 1636?
(a) John Wheelwright
(b) Thomas Shepard
(c) Thomas Dudley
(d) George Phillips

2. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) 1531
(b) 1625
(c) 1599
(d) 1544

3. What individual, who was later to be honored as Cromwell’s chaplain, urged that John Cotton be commissioned to “go through the Bible, and raise marginal notes upon all the knotty places of the scriptures,” according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
(a) John Humfrey
(b) Isaac Johnson
(c) Hugh Peter
(d) William Blackstone

4. What does the author say “was responsible for suppressing heresy as well as drunkenness and theft and murder” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The state
(b) The crown
(c) The jury
(d) The church

5. Where did Anne Hutchinson go with her followers after she was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) Virginia
(b) Plymouth
(c) Connecticut
(d) New Hampshire

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Richard Bellingham arrive in Massachusetts?

2. When did William and Anne Hutchinson first arrive in Boston?

3. What minister does the author describe in 1633 as giving a lecture in Boston when he was questioned on whether or not women ought to wear veils in church in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

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

5. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?

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