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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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?
(a) Edification
(b) Classification
(c) Redemption
(d) Justification

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Where had Roger Williams studied divinity?

3. 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?

4. 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”?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe Anne Hutchinson’s Antinomian beliefs in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?

2. What forced John Winthrop to reveal the stipulations of the charter to the colonists, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

3. What power did the clergy have in the Massachusetts settlement, according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?

4. How is the Reverend John Cotton described in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”? What was Cotton’s relationship to Anne Hutchinson?

5. Why did John Winthrop want to retire from government in 1640, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?

6. What decision did John Winthrop make regarding the English Civil War? Why?

7. What led up to the banishment of Reverend Wheelwright, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?

8. How did the Puritans perceive the relationship between church and state, according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?

9. What was the impact of the dispute between John Winthrop and the representatives regarding the stipulations of the charter, as seen in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

10. Why did John Winthrop’s choice regarding the English Civil War prove to be advantageous to the Puritans, as discussed by the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?

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