View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: Foreign Affairs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The king’s charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company ordained that the freemen of the company were to meet how many times per year in a “Great and General Court”?
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 4
(d) 12

2. 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) 5
(c) 7
(d) 6

3. On what date did John Winthrop summon at Charlestown the first meeting labeled in the records as a General Court?
(a) October 19, 1630
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) March 27, 1625

4. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) Epperson Manor
(b) Groton Manor
(c) Guilford Manor
(d) Tattershall

5. The author says of John Winthrop in Chapter 13: “Foreign Affairs,” “His most daring foreign adventure was in playing off two Frenchmen against each other.” The two Frenchmen who both claimed the governorship of Acadia were Charles de Saint Etienne de la Tour and whom?
(a) Raoul Dautry
(b) Jean-Nicolas Stofflet
(c) Jacques Legrand
(d) Charles de Menon

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony finally order Roger Williams to leave the colony within six weeks?

2. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?

3. What group amongst the New England Puritans “insisted that the bishops be replaced by another organization, with churches and clergy arranged in a pyramidal structure,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

4. Who wrote to Winthrop in a letter, regarding the ordinances in the colony, that by treating temptation as a sin, it was making “more sins than (as yet is seene) God himself hath made,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

5. The author asserts in the beginning of Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed” that “As long as Winthrop held the reins of government he held them” how?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 342 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample