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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. The author begins Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked” with the assertion, “The great advantage of the government which Winthrop established in Massachusetts was” what?
(a) Its complexity
(b) Its omniscience
(c) Its grandiosity
(d) Its simplicity

2. How many graduates received diplomas in Harvard College’s first graduating class?
(a) 8
(b) 15
(c) 6
(d) 9

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

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

5. 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) Synod
(b) Demagogue
(c) Despotism
(d) Vicegerent

Short Answer Questions

1. What term from the book refers to a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, prejudices, and ignorance of the less-educated citizens in order to gain power and promote political motives?

2. 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”?

3. What ordinance was exercised by Winthrop and his assistants regarding firearms and the Indians, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

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

5. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What problems arose in the Massachusetts colony as a result of the outbreak of the English Civil War?

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

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

6. What were John Winthrop’s feelings about Roger Williams, according to the author in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?

7. When did Anne and William Hutchinson arrive in New England? How does the author describe them in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?

8. What type of government did the Massachusetts Bay Company charter entitle the officers to establish for the colony, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

9. Where did Roger Williams go when he left Plymouth? Where did he begin a church and start to gain power, according to the author in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?

10. What did the Massachusetts Bay Company charter grant in terms of the establishment of a government for the colony, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

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