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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anne Hutchinson is said to have gained a wide acquaintance in Boston by serving as what, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
(a) A baker
(b) A royal servant
(c) A church leader
(d) A midwife

2. How many Englishmen were said to have come to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the summer of 1638?
(a) 1,000
(b) 3,000
(c) 500
(d) 5,000

3. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) William Bradford
(b) Thomas Dudley
(c) Roger Williams
(d) Nathaniel Ward

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

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

6. When did William and Anne Hutchinson first arrive in Boston?
(a) September 18, 1634
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) May 15, 1629

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

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

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

10. Thomas Dudley had been whose steward in England?
(a) The Duchess of York’s
(b) The Duke of Canbury’s
(c) The Earl if Ipswich’s
(d) The Earl of Lincoln’s

11. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop had constructed a fort where, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) In Salem
(b) In Merrimack
(c) In Boston
(d) In Medford

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

13. Where had Roger Williams studied divinity?
(a) Cambridge
(b) Stourbridge
(c) St. Edwards
(d) St. Thomas

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Anne Hutchinson’s maiden name?

2. In 1629, Roger Williams was chaplain to whom in Essex?

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

4. 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”?

5. 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”?

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