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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Tenhills Farm was located in what current city, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?
(a) Mount Desert
(b) Salem
(c) Hartford
(d) Medford

3. How many pounds did the General Court usually pay John Winthrop per year while he was governor?
(a) 50
(b) 25
(c) 100
(d) 200

4. Who was elected deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) Roger Williams
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) John Wilson

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”?
(a) John Humfrey
(b) Hugh Peter
(c) Isaac Johnson
(d) William Blackstone

6. 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) John Haynes
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) William Bradford

7. How old was Henry Vane when he was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636?
(a) 23
(b) 19
(c) 32
(d) 36

8. What was the name of Anne Hutchinson’s brother-in-law that was a minister whom she admired?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend John Wheelwright
(c) Reverend John Humfrey
(d) Reverend John Preston

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

10. 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) Classification
(c) Justification
(d) Redemption

11. Roger Williams first arrived in the New World aboard what ship?
(a) The Lyon
(b) The Holy Royal
(c) The Arbella
(d) The St. Mary

12. 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) Gunpowder
(c) Cured meat
(d) Corn

13. The amount of debts that John Winthrop ended up with as a result of James Luxford’s actions was how much, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?
(a) 1,000 pounds
(b) 2,500 pounds
(c) 3,000 pounds
(d) 550 pounds

14. What word from Chapter 11: “The New England Way” refers to an officer appointed as deputy by and to a sovereign or supreme chief?
(a) Vicegerent
(b) Despotism
(c) Demagogue
(d) Synod

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1629, Roger Williams was chaplain to whom in Essex?

2. 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”?

3. In the spring of 1637, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became involved in a war with what Indian tribe?

4. 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”?

5. Where was Anne Hutchinson born?

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