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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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”?
(a) George Phillips
(b) Israel Stoughton
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) William Laud

3. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) 1642
(b) 1641
(c) 1633
(d) 1631

4. Richard Bellingham is said to have been a lawyer in England and a member of Charles I’s Parliament of what year?
(a) 1632
(b) 1629
(c) 1631
(d) 1628

5. Where did Anne Hutchinson go with her followers after she was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) Virginia
(b) Connecticut
(c) Plymouth
(d) New Hampshire

6. It was early in what year that the English Civil War broke out?
(a) 1619
(b) 1635
(c) 1665
(d) 1642

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

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

9. 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 trade with Indians
(c) The law against capitalism
(d) The law against monopolies

10. When did Richard Bellingham arrive in Massachusetts?
(a) 1655
(b) 1645
(c) 1634
(d) 1631

11. When did William and Anne Hutchinson first arrive in Boston?
(a) September 18, 1634
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) February 2, 1626
(d) July 28, 1629

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

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

14. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635?
(a) William Bradford
(b) Nicholas Knopp
(c) John Haynes
(d) Roger Williams

15. 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) John Endecott
(b) William Blackstone
(c) George Phillips
(d) Nathaniel Ward

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop had constructed a fort where, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

2. 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”?

3. 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”?

4. Who is quoted in Chapter 11: “The New England Way” as having said “if the people be governors, who shall be governed?”

5. 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?

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