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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twenty-Three.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does John Winthrop decide he is going to emigrate to the new world?
(a) When his mother dies
(b) When his business fails
(c) After a meeting of Parliament
(d) During a meeting at Lincolnshire

2. Why is Anne Hutchinson excommunicated from the church?
(a) She has disgraced her husband in public.
(b) She has destroyed her Bible.
(c) She refuses to attend church services.
(d) She is accused of being a witch.

3. What do the men need before they can plan their journey to the new world?
(a) Provisions that will last for months
(b) Financial backing
(c) A crate of Bibles
(d) A good ship

4. What happens when Will Hallet arrives to see Bess?
(a) Bess does not tell him she is pregnant with Robert's child.
(b) They realize they are in love.
(c) Bess tells him to go away.
(d) Will tells Bess he is engaged to a Boston girl.

5. What happens when John Winthrop's iron-fisted style of leadership creates huge opposition in the colony?
(a) Winthrop gets even more determined to rule his own way.
(b) Winthrop decides to go back to England.
(c) Winthrop must speak with the church elders on a regular basis.
(d) Winthrop is ousted from office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Robert Feake's condition?

2. How is Harry fixed for money?

3. Who is the eldest of the Fones children?

4. Why do Toby Feake, Thomas Lyon and Angell Husted arrive at Will's house armed and angry?

5. What does Fitch, the Fones' servant, tell Edward Howes about the Fones household?

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