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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Cambridge, Massachusetts called during the first winter when the colonists decided to build their houses there in 1630?
(a) Boston
(b) Medford
(c) Newtown
(d) Salem

2. 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”?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) William Blackstone
(c) John Wheelwright
(d) George Phillips

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

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

5. What was Anne Hutchinson’s maiden name?
(a) Anne Endecott
(b) Anne Blackstone
(c) Anne Marbury
(d) Anne Cradock

6. 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 millinery
(b) The law against capitalism
(c) The law against trade with Indians
(d) The law against monopolies

7. Who had been governing the colony under instruction from the company in England before Winthrop and the others arrived, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
(a) John Endecott
(b) William Bradford
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) John Haynes

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

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

10. When did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony finally order Roger Williams to leave the colony within six weeks?
(a) May, 1629
(b) October, 1635
(c) November, 1638
(d) December, 1632

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

12. What minister does the author describe in 1633 as giving a lecture in Boston when he was questioned on whether or not women ought to wear veils in church in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend John Wilson
(c) Reverend John Cotton
(d) Reverend John Wheelwright

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

14. 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) Sir Richard Saltonstall
(c) John Endecott
(d) Reverend John Wheelwright

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

Short Answer 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?

2. Roger Williams first arrived in the New World aboard what ship?

3. 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?

4. How many pounds did the General Court usually pay John Winthrop per year while he was governor?

5. Where was Anne Hutchinson born?

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