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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Leniency Rebuked.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) William Bradford
(c) Roger Williams
(d) Thomas Dudley

2. How many years before John Winthrop’s arrival in the New World had Samuel Maverick arrived with his bride and built a house?
(a) 6 years before
(b) 10 years before
(c) 1 year before
(d) 3 years before

3. What term refers to a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power?
(a) Despotism
(b) Demagogue
(c) Democracy
(d) Synod

4. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
(a) Sara
(b) Marie
(c) Elizabeth
(d) Lucy

5. John Winthrop, Jr. considered going to New England with Endecott’s group but instead went on a fourteen-month tour of what region, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) The Mediterranean
(b) The Canary Islands
(c) Tropical Asia
(d) South America

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the previous Salem settlers had died in the preceding winter when John Winthrop arrived with his fleet, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

2. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?

3. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that by 1635, “a dozen churches were scattered round the bay from Hingham to” where?

4. What group of the New England Puritans wanted to destroy the bishops and then let each individual church be sufficient to itself, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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