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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 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) Redemption
(c) Justification
(d) Classification

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) Intolerance
(d) Patience

3. 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) Maine
(b) New Hampshire
(c) Connecticut
(d) Virginia

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?
(a) Reverend John Preston
(b) Reverend John Wilson
(c) Reverend John Endecott
(d) Reverend John Wheelwright

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was chosen by the followers of Anne Hutchinson to serve as the official spokesperson for her views in 1636?

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

3. The author states in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government,” that when Winthrop and eleven other members of the Massachusetts Bay Company met “on August 26, 1629, they agreed to go to New England if the charter and headquarters of the company could be transferred with them.” How many of the twelve kept their pledge, arriving with Winthrop or shortly after?

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

5. What “testy pastor of Ipswich, held himself unworthy to wipe John Cotton’s slippers,” according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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”?

2. What were the faults of John Endecott and Thomas Dudley as legislators, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

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

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

5. 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”?

6. 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”?

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

8. What ordinance does the author describe Nathaniel Ward as having introduced in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?

9. How was Winthrop’s system of elections established, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”? On what grounds was this system established?

10. When did Roger Williams come to New England? How was his arrival in the colony described in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?

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