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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: The New England Way.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?
(a) Thomas Dudley
(b) John Endecott
(c) William Laud
(d) Isaac Johnson

2. On what date did John Winthrop write home to Margaret from London about the prospect of moving to New England, saying, “If the Lord seeth it wil be good for us, he will provide a shelter and a hidinge place for us and ours”?
(a) October 19, 1630
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) August 23, 1630
(d) May 15, 1629

3. Where did John Winthrop enroll to study law in 1613?
(a) Tameside College
(b) Gray’s Inn
(c) Uxbridge College
(d) Stafford College

4. When did James I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1567
(b) 1598
(c) 1698
(d) 1625

5. Who is said to have “removed himself to the Narragansett country, remarking that he had left England because he did not like the Lord Bishops and found the rule of the Lord Brethren no better” in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
(a) John Wheelwright
(b) George Phillips
(c) Nathaniel Ward
(d) William Blackstone

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?

2. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?

3. What was Anne Hutchinson’s maiden name?

4. What term refers to a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power?

5. The author says of Winthrop in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that he “did not aim at power for the sake of power, but he longed to” do what?

(see the answer key)

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