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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Preston
(d) Reverend John Wheelwright

2. 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

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

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

5. During the economic depression that hit the New World during the English Civil War, what law was overlooked in order to encourage entrepreneurs who undertook to produce iron and salt?
(a) The law against monopolies
(b) The law against capitalism
(c) The law against trade with Indians
(d) The law against millinery

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

7. Which of John Winthrop’s sons settled in Ipswich?
(a) William Winthrop
(b) Paul Winthrop
(c) John Winthrop, Jr
(d) Henry Winthrop

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

9. 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?
(a) 8
(b) 10
(c) 5
(d) 7

10. What ordinance was exercised by Winthrop and his assistants regarding firearms and the Indians, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
(a) It was forbidden to let the Indians see firearms
(b) It was forbidden to use firearms against the Indians
(c) It was forbidden to sell firearms to the Indians
(d) It was forbidden to purchase firearms from the Indians

11. 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) Virginia
(c) New Hampshire
(d) Maine

12. What does the author say James Luxford was ultimately convicted of in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?
(a) Murder, forgery, and lying
(b) Treason, forgery, and lying
(c) Arson, forgery, and theft
(d) Bigamy, lying, and forgery

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

14. 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) 12
(c) 10
(d) 18

15. The author begins Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked” with the assertion, “The great advantage of the government which Winthrop established in Massachusetts was” what?
(a) Its omniscience
(b) Its complexity
(c) Its grandiosity
(d) Its simplicity

Short Answer Questions

1. At the first meeting summoned by Winthrop in Charlestown, how many assistants were present, in addition to himself and Thomas Dudley?

2. 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”?

3. What term from Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” refers to one who holds that under the gospel, dispensation of grace is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation”?

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”?

5. 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”?

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