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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pounds did the General Court usually pay John Winthrop per year while he was governor?
(a) 25
(b) 50
(c) 100
(d) 200

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

3. What substantial and straightforward freeman from Dorchester drew up a list of arguments against Winthrop’s cause with the General Court, leading Winthrop to ride him down as "a troubler of Israel,” according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?
(a) William Laud
(b) Israel Stoughton
(c) George Phillips
(d) Thomas Fones

4. When was John Cotton chosen as the teacher at the Boston church, shortly after his arrival in New England?
(a) September, 1633
(b) July, 1632
(c) October, 1635
(d) May, 1629

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

6. What was the name of Anne Hutchinson’s brother-in-law that was a minister whom she admired?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend John Preston
(c) Reverend John Humfrey
(d) Reverend John Wheelwright

7. 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

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

9. How many Englishmen were said to have come to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the summer of 1638?
(a) 1,000
(b) 500
(c) 3,000
(d) 5,000

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

11. 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?
(a) Sir Richard Saltonstall
(b) Reverend John Wheelwright
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) John Endecott

12. What was Anne Hutchinson’s maiden name?
(a) Anne Cradock
(b) Anne Blackstone
(c) Anne Marbury
(d) Anne Endecott

13. Who was elected deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) Roger Ludlow
(c) Roger Williams
(d) John Wilson

14. What minister does the author describe in 1633 as giving a lecture in Boston when he was questioned on whether or not women ought to wear veils in church in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend John Cotton
(c) Reverend John Wheelwright
(d) Reverend John Wilson

15. Who had been governing the colony under instruction from the company in England before Winthrop and the others arrived, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
(a) William Bradford
(b) John Haynes
(c) John Endecott
(d) Roger Ludlow

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. What does the author say James Luxford was ultimately convicted of in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?

3. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

4. Who is quoted in Chapter 11: “The New England Way” as having said “if the people be governors, who shall be governed?”

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

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