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

2. When did Richard Bellingham arrive in Massachusetts?
(a) 1631
(b) 1645
(c) 1655
(d) 1634

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

4. On what date did John Winthrop summon at Charlestown the first meeting labeled in the records as a General Court?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) April 29, 1618
(c) October 19, 1630
(d) March 27, 1625

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Anne Hutchinson is said to have gained a wide acquaintance in Boston by serving as what, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?

2. 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?

3. Who is described in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed” as the “judicious governor of the colony” at Plymouth that found Roger Williams to be godly and zealous?

4. During the economic depression that hit the New World during the English Civil War, what law was overlooked in order to encourage entrepreneurs who undertook to produce iron and salt?

5. Winthrop and his governing assistants seized whose “strong water” because he sold too much of it to other men’s servants, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was innovative and potentially controversial about the system of government established by Winthrop and his associates, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

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

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

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

7. What did the representatives learn when they studied the charter in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

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

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. 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”?

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