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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had been governing the colony under instruction from the company in England before Winthrop and the others arrived, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
(a) William Bradford
(b) Roger Ludlow
(c) John Haynes
(d) John Endecott

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

3. 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) John Haynes
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) William Bradford

4. 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) Thomas Dudley
(b) George Phillips
(c) Roger Williams
(d) Henry Winthrop

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) 3,000 pounds
(b) 2,500 pounds
(c) 1,000 pounds
(d) 550 pounds

6. 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”?
(a) New Hampshire
(b) Maine
(c) Virginia
(d) Connecticut

7. What individual that later became a leading figure in Connecticut is said to have grown “into passion and said, that then we should have no government, but there would be an interim, wherein every man might do what he pleased” in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) William Blackstone
(b) John Haynes
(c) William Bradford
(d) Roger Ludlow

8. Who is quoted in Chapter 11: “The New England Way” as having said “if the people be governors, who shall be governed?”
(a) Henry Winthrop
(b) John Cotton
(c) George Phillips
(d) Thomas Shepard

9. Where did Roger Williams go after he became dissatisfied with the church in Plymouth in 1633?
(a) Portland
(b) Salem
(c) Medford
(d) Hartford

10. When did King Charles I meet with defiance for attempting to impose the Anglican prayer book in Scotland?
(a) September, 1641
(b) June, 1642
(c) May, 1640
(d) March, 1639

11. 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) 1629
(c) 1632
(d) 1631

12. The king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company ordained that the freemen of the company were to meet how many times per year in a “Great and General Court”?
(a) 4
(b) 8
(c) 12
(d) 6

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

14. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635?
(a) Nicholas Knopp
(b) William Bradford
(c) Roger Williams
(d) John Haynes

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is said to have “removed himself to the Narragansett country, remarking that he had left England because he did not like the Lord Bishops and found the rule of the Lord Brethren no better” in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

2. James Luxford worked for John Winthrop in what position?

3. Who was chosen by the followers of Anne Hutchinson to serve as the official spokesperson for her views in 1636?

4. Winthrop and his governing assistants seized whose “strong water” because he sold too much of it to other men’s servants, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

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

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