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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Thomas Fones
(b) William Laud
(c) Israel Stoughton
(d) George Phillips

2. How old was Nathaniel Ward when he came to Ipswich in 1634?
(a) 42
(b) 55
(c) 29
(d) 49

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

4. Who was elected deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) John Wilson
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) Nathaniel Ward

5. What term from the book refers to a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, prejudices, and ignorance of the less-educated citizens in order to gain power and promote political motives?
(a) Synod
(b) Fascist
(c) Despotism
(d) Demagogue

6. What “testy pastor of Ipswich, held himself unworthy to wipe John Cotton’s slippers,” according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
(a) William Blackstone
(b) John Endecott
(c) George Phillips
(d) Nathaniel Ward

7. At the first meeting summoned by Winthrop in Charlestown, how many assistants were present, in addition to himself and Thomas Dudley?
(a) 3
(b) 10
(c) 5
(d) 7

8. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop had allowed the people of Watertown to build a weir where, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) On the Mississippi River
(b) On the Merrimack River
(c) On the Hudson River
(d) On the Charles River

9. 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) William Blackstone
(b) Isaac Johnson
(c) John Humfrey
(d) Hugh Peter

10. 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?
(a) Edification
(b) Justification
(c) Classification
(d) Redemption

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

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

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

14. When was John Cotton chosen as the teacher at the Boston church, shortly after his arrival in New England?
(a) July, 1632
(b) October, 1635
(c) May, 1629
(d) September, 1633

15. According to the king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company, it was ordained that the freemen of the company were to elect a governor, deputy governor, and how many “assistants” every year?
(a) 5
(b) 10
(c) 12
(d) 18

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where had Roger Williams studied divinity?

3. It was early in what year that the English Civil War broke out?

4. When Roger Williams was first offered a position as minister at the Salem church, John Winthrop wrote to whom, marveling that they would choose a teacher with such dangerous views?

5. The author states in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government,” that when Winthrop and eleven other members of the Massachusetts Bay Company met “on August 26, 1629, they agreed to go to New England if the charter and headquarters of the company could be transferred with them.” How many of the twelve kept their pledge, arriving with Winthrop or shortly after?

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