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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 Wilson
(b) Reverend John Endecott
(c) Reverend John Wheelwright
(d) Reverend John Preston

3. 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 William Blackstone
(c) Reverend John Wilson
(d) Reverend George Phillips

4. 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) William Bradford
(b) Roger Ludlow
(c) John Haynes
(d) John Wilson

5. 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 Charles River
(b) On the Merrimack River
(c) On the Mississippi River
(d) On the Hudson River

6. 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) Classification
(b) Justification
(c) Redemption
(d) Edification

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

8. What two prominent ministers were chosen to carry the wisdom of the colony back to the mother country in the light of the troubles faced in 1641, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?
(a) Isaac Johnson and John Humfrey
(b) Robert Ryece and William Laud
(c) John Endecott and Thomas Dudley
(d) Thomas Welde and Hugh Peter

9. 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) Connecticut
(b) Maine
(c) New Hampshire
(d) Virginia

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

11. 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 church leader
(b) A baker
(c) A midwife
(d) A royal servant

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

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

14. 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”?
(a) Nathaniel Ward’s
(b) Roger Ludlow’s
(c) John Wilson’s
(d) Richard Clough’s

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

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

3. How old was Henry Vane when he was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636?

4. Where did Anne Hutchinson go with her followers after she was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

5. The author begins Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked” with the assertion, “The great advantage of the government which Winthrop established in Massachusetts was” what?

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