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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Sir Richard Saltonstall
(b) John Endecott
(c) Reverend John Wheelwright
(d) Roger Ludlow

2. 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) Imprisonment
(b) Arbitration
(c) Patience
(d) Intolerance

3. After Winthrop moved the colony headquarters to Charlestown, he summoned the assistants for their first meeting on what date?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) August 23, 1630
(d) October 19, 1630

4. Who is said in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” to have observed that many people in Massachusetts “could hardly believe that God would suffer Mr. Cotton to err”?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) George Phillips
(c) Thomas Dudley
(d) Henry Winthrop

5. 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”?
(a) A conversionist
(b) A Presbyterian
(c) An antinomian
(d) An anarchist

6. 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) Robert Ryece and William Laud
(b) John Endecott and Thomas Dudley
(c) Isaac Johnson and John Humfrey
(d) Thomas Welde and Hugh Peter

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

8. The king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company ordained that the freemen of the company were to meet how many times per year in a “Great and General Court”?
(a) 4
(b) 6
(c) 8
(d) 12

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

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

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

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

13. 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”?
(a) Nicholas Knopp
(b) Roger Williams
(c) George Phillips
(d) Nathaniel Ward

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did King Charles I meet with defiance for attempting to impose the Anglican prayer book in Scotland?

2. Which of John Winthrop’s sons settled in Ipswich?

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. When Roger Williams first arrived at the colony, what minister and teacher of the Boston church was returning to England to fetch his wife?

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

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