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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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”?
2. After Winthrop moved the colony headquarters to Charlestown, he summoned the assistants for their first meeting on what date?
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. When Roger Williams first arrived at the colony, what minister and teacher of the Boston church was returning to England to fetch his wife?
5. Richard Bellingham is said to have been a lawyer in England and a member of Charles I’s Parliament of what year?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did Anne and William Hutchinson arrive in New England? How does the author describe them 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 problems arose in the Massachusetts colony as a result of the outbreak of the English Civil War?
4. 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”?
5. 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?
6. When was the “Body of Liberties” adopted in Massachusetts? What did this document contain?
7. 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”?
8. When did Roger Williams come to New England? How was his arrival in the colony described in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?
9. How does the author describe the changes in the colony during the years when John Winthrop was overthrown as governor 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”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss John Winthrop’s conversion from the Anglican faith to the more radical Puritan beliefs. Where did John first encounter Puritanism? How many Puritans lived and preached in England during this time period? What influenced the spread of Puritanism in Europe?
Essay Topic 2
Describe John Winthrop’s education. What role did John’s father play in the academic world? How privileged was John Winthrop in his pursuit of higher education at his time historically? Where did John Winthrop study? What did he study?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss John Winthrop’s inner conflicts regarding colonization in the New World. What did Winthrop see as the positive elements of leaving England? What were the negative elements of the colonization to Winthrop? How did the interest of Emmanuel Downing influence Winthrop’s position?
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