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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: A Special Commission.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 7
(b) 6
(c) 2
(d) 5

2. What term refers to a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application?
(a) Synod
(b) Antibody
(c) Fraternity
(d) Catechism

3. What did the Puritans believe “was the mother of heresy,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) Ignorance
(b) Lust
(c) Knowledge
(d) Government

4. On what date did John Winthrop marry Margaret Tyndal?
(a) April 7, 1630
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) July 28, 1629

5. According to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival,” it cost the better part of what amount of money “to come to New England properly equipped, even if one knew exactly what to bring and what not to bring”?
(a) 10 pounds
(b) 100 pounds
(c) 20 pounds
(d) 50 pounds

Short Answer Questions

1. 93. For how many years does the author say the “human flood swept into Massachusetts, pushing up the rivers, swarming over the champion lands, some twenty thousand souls, and every soul was checked off as saved or damned” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

2. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

3. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?

4. Who is said to have warned Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place,” saying "The pipe goeth sweete tyll the Byrde be in the nett, many bewtifull hopes are sett before your eyes to allewer you to danger"?

5. Upon arriving in the New World, John Winthrop’s shops sailed through the channel between Bakers Island and Little Island and cast anchor where, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

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