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

2. Where was Anne Hutchinson born?
(a) Alford, Lincolnshire, England
(b) Rochdale, Macclesfield, England
(c) Redditch, Worcester, England
(d) Walsall, Stafford, England

3. 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 grandiosity
(b) Its omniscience
(c) Its simplicity
(d) Its complexity

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

5. 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) 1631
(c) 1628
(d) 1629

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Dudley had been whose steward in England?

2. 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”?

3. On what date did John Winthrop summon at Charlestown the first meeting labeled in the records as a General Court?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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”?

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

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

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

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

7. 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”?

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

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

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

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