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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

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

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed,” John Winthrop believed that the most effective weapons against separatism were “argument, admonition, and” what?
(a) Intolerance
(b) Imprisonment
(c) Patience
(d) Arbitration

5. 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) 1628
(d) 1632

6. 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?
(a) Roger Ludlow
(b) John Endecott
(c) Reverend John Wheelwright
(d) Sir Richard Saltonstall

7. 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 George Phillips
(b) Reverend William Blackstone
(c) Reverend John Wheelwright
(d) Reverend John Wilson

8. James Luxford worked for John Winthrop in what position?
(a) His butler
(b) Overseer of his lands
(c) His carriage-driver
(d) His Deputy Governor

9. How many men with university training are known to have been in New England in 1641?
(a) 114
(b) 59
(c) 201
(d) 313

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

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

12. In the spring of 1637, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became involved in a war with what Indian tribe?
(a) The Mohegan Indians
(b) The Narragansett Indians
(c) The Cherokee Indians
(d) The Pequot Indians

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

14. 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) Jacobus Arminius and John Preston
(b) Robert Ryece and William Laud
(c) Brampton Gurdon and Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston
(d) Matthew Cradock and John Humfrey

15. 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) Potatoes
(b) Cured meat
(c) Gunpowder
(d) Corn

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. 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?

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. 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”?

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

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