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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: Seventeenth Century Nihilism.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In order to secure the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, an agreement was finally worked out whereby the remaining resources of the company would be managed for seven years by "undertakers." How many of these undertakers would be established in Massachusetts?
(a) 3
(b) 6
(c) 5
(d) 7
2. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?
(a) The Queen Mary
(b) The New World
(c) The Lyon
(d) The Arbella
3. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) July 16, 1630
(c) March 27, 1625
(d) August 26, 1629
4. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 3
(d) 2
5. What was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) Paul
(b) James
(c) William
(d) Samuel
Short Answer Questions
1. At the first meeting summoned by Winthrop in Charlestown, how many assistants were present, in addition to himself and Thomas Dudley?
2. What term from Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism” refers to one who holds that under the gospel, dispensation of grace is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation”?
3. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?
4. After Winthrop moved the colony headquarters to Charlestown, he summoned the assistants for their first meeting on what date?
5. Who had been governing the colony under instruction from the company in England before Winthrop and the others arrived, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
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