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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It was early in what year that the English Civil War broke out?
(a) 1619
(b) 1642
(c) 1665
(d) 1635

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

3. When was Oliver Cromwell born?
(a) 1611
(b) 1548
(c) 1599
(d) 1612

4. 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) Jean-Nicolas Stofflet
(b) Jacques Legrand
(c) Raoul Dautry
(d) Charles de Menon

5. In what year did Margaret Winthrop die?
(a) 1642
(b) 1647
(c) 1640
(d) 1665

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?

2. During the economic depression that hit the New World during the English Civil War, what law was overlooked in order to encourage entrepreneurs who undertook to produce iron and salt?

3. What is the approximate distance between London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts?

4. Whom does the author say in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government” was fined five pounds “for takeing upon him to cure the scurvey by a water of noe worth nor value, which hee solde att a very deare rate”?

5. What term refers to a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application?

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