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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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
2. How many pounds did the General Court usually pay John Winthrop per year while he was governor?
(a) 100
(b) 50
(c) 200
(d) 25
3. On what date did John Winthrop summon at Charlestown the first meeting labeled in the records as a General Court?
(a) October 19, 1630
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) March 27, 1625
(d) April 29, 1618
4. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop lent twenty-eight pounds of what to Plymouth colony without authorization, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) Gunpowder
(b) Corn
(c) Cured meat
(d) Potatoes
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”?
(a) William Blackstone
(b) William Bradford
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) John Haynes
6. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Thomas Dudley
(b) Nathaniel Ward
(c) William Bradford
(d) Roger Williams
7. 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
8. Thomas Dudley had been whose steward in England?
(a) The Duke of Canbury’s
(b) The Earl if Ipswich’s
(c) The Earl of Lincoln’s
(d) The Duchess of York’s
9. 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
10. 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
11. Which of John Winthrop’s sons settled in Ipswich?
(a) William Winthrop
(b) Henry Winthrop
(c) John Winthrop, Jr
(d) Paul Winthrop
12. When John Winthrop found himself in considerable debt, what two friends wrote from London offering to loan him money, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?
(a) Robert Ryece and William Laud
(b) Jacobus Arminius and John Preston
(c) Brampton Gurdon and Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston
(d) Matthew Cradock and John Humfrey
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. Where had Roger Williams studied divinity?
(a) St. Thomas
(b) Stourbridge
(c) St. Edwards
(d) Cambridge
15. Tenhills Farm was located in what current city, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?
(a) Medford
(b) Salem
(c) Hartford
(d) Mount Desert
Short Answer Questions
1. How many Englishmen were said to have come to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the summer of 1638?
2. 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?
3. What word from Chapter 11: “The New England Way” refers to an officer appointed as deputy by and to a sovereign or supreme chief?
4. How old was Nathaniel Ward when he came to Ipswich in 1634?
5. 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”?
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