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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say James Luxford was ultimately convicted of in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?
(a) Arson, forgery, and theft
(b) Murder, forgery, and lying
(c) Bigamy, lying, and forgery
(d) Treason, forgery, and lying

2. Where did Roger Williams go after he became dissatisfied with the church in Plymouth in 1633?
(a) Portland
(b) Salem
(c) Hartford
(d) Medford

3. Roger Williams first arrived in the New World aboard what ship?
(a) The Lyon
(b) The St. Mary
(c) The Holy Royal
(d) The Arbella

4. Who is described in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed” as the “judicious governor of the colony” at Plymouth that found Roger Williams to be godly and zealous?
(a) William Bradford
(b) John Haynes
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) John Wilson

5. James Luxford worked for John Winthrop in what position?
(a) His butler
(b) His carriage-driver
(c) Overseer of his lands
(d) His Deputy Governor

6. In the spring of 1637, the author describes the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s involvement in a war with an Indian tribe. Where were the settlers that “bore the brunt of the fighting”?
(a) Maine
(b) Virginia
(c) Connecticut
(d) New Hampshire

7. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop had allowed the people of Watertown to build a weir where, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) On the Hudson River
(b) On the Mississippi River
(c) On the Charles River
(d) On the Merrimack River

8. 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”?
(a) George Phillips
(b) Roger Williams
(c) Nicholas Knopp
(d) Nathaniel Ward

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

10. Who is quoted in Chapter 11: “The New England Way” as having said “if the people be governors, who shall be governed?”
(a) George Phillips
(b) Thomas Shepard
(c) Henry Winthrop
(d) John Cotton

11. When did Richard Bellingham arrive in Massachusetts?
(a) 1634
(b) 1645
(c) 1631
(d) 1655

12. When did King Charles I meet with defiance for attempting to impose the Anglican prayer book in Scotland?
(a) March, 1639
(b) May, 1640
(c) September, 1641
(d) June, 1642

13. Thomas Dudley had been whose steward in England?
(a) The Duke of Canbury’s
(b) The Earl if Ipswich’s
(c) The Duchess of York’s
(d) The Earl of Lincoln’s

14. Winthrop and his governing assistants seized whose “strong water” because he sold too much of it to other men’s servants, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
(a) John Wilson’s
(b) Nathaniel Ward’s
(c) Roger Ludlow’s
(d) Richard Clough’s

15. Anne Hutchinson is said to have gained a wide acquaintance in Boston by serving as what, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?
(a) A royal servant
(b) A midwife
(c) A church leader
(d) A baker

Short Answer Questions

1. What term from the book refers to a political leader in a democracy who appeals to the emotions, prejudices, and ignorance of the less-educated citizens in order to gain power and promote political motives?

2. How old was Nathaniel Ward when he came to Ipswich in 1634?

3. Where was Anne Hutchinson born?

4. When Roger Williams was first offered a position as minister at the Salem church, John Winthrop wrote to whom, marveling that they would choose a teacher with such dangerous views?

5. What two prominent ministers were chosen to carry the wisdom of the colony back to the mother country in the light of the troubles faced in 1641, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?

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