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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Whom does the author say in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government” was fined five pounds “for takeing upon him to cure the scurvey by a water of noe worth nor value, which hee solde att a very deare rate”?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) Nathaniel Ward
(c) Nicholas Knopp
(d) George Phillips

3. What substantial and straightforward freeman from Dorchester drew up a list of arguments against Winthrop’s cause with the General Court, leading Winthrop to ride him down as "a troubler of Israel,” according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?
(a) George Phillips
(b) William Laud
(c) Israel Stoughton
(d) Thomas Fones

4. After Winthrop moved the colony headquarters to Charlestown, he summoned the assistants for their first meeting on what date?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) October 19, 1630
(c) August 23, 1630
(d) February 2, 1626

5. What was the name of Anne Hutchinson’s brother-in-law that was a minister whom she admired?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend John Wheelwright
(c) Reverend John Preston
(d) Reverend John Humfrey

6. What pastor in Watertown and Winthrop's neighbor back in England caused problems by teaching that the Roman Catholic Church was a legitimate body of Christians?
(a) Reverend John Wheelwright
(b) Reverend John Wilson
(c) Reverend George Phillips
(d) Reverend William Blackstone

7. Who is described in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed” as the “judicious governor of the colony” at Plymouth that found Roger Williams to be godly and zealous?
(a) John Wilson
(b) William Bradford
(c) John Haynes
(d) Roger Ludlow

8. When did Richard Bellingham arrive in Massachusetts?
(a) 1631
(b) 1655
(c) 1645
(d) 1634

9. The author asserts in the beginning of Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed” that “As long as Winthrop held the reins of government he held them” how?
(a) Distractedly
(b) Lightly
(c) Loosely
(d) Tightly

10. Richard Bellingham is said to have been a lawyer in England and a member of Charles I’s Parliament of what year?
(a) 1628
(b) 1632
(c) 1629
(d) 1631

11. How many graduates received diplomas in Harvard College’s first graduating class?
(a) 15
(b) 9
(c) 6
(d) 8

12. Where was Anne Hutchinson born?
(a) Rochdale, Macclesfield, England
(b) Alford, Lincolnshire, England
(c) Redditch, Worcester, England
(d) Walsall, Stafford, England

13. When Roger Williams first arrived at the colony, what minister and teacher of the Boston church was returning to England to fetch his wife?
(a) Reverend John Preston
(b) Reverend John Wilson
(c) Reverend John Endecott
(d) Reverend John Wheelwright

14. The author begins Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked” with the assertion, “The great advantage of the government which Winthrop established in Massachusetts was” what?
(a) Its omniscience
(b) Its grandiosity
(c) Its simplicity
(d) Its complexity

15. 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) Synod
(b) Demagogue
(c) Vicegerent
(d) Despotism

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Anne Hutchinson’s maiden name?

2. Thomas Dudley had been whose steward in England?

3. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

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 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”?

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