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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) Nathaniel Ward
(c) William Bradford
(d) Thomas Dudley

2. When Roger Williams first arrived at the colony, what minister and teacher of the Boston church was returning to England to fetch his wife?
(a) Reverend John Preston
(b) Reverend John Endecott
(c) Reverend John Wheelwright
(d) Reverend John Wilson

3. Where had Roger Williams studied divinity?
(a) Stourbridge
(b) St. Thomas
(c) St. Edwards
(d) Cambridge

4. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) 1633
(b) 1631
(c) 1641
(d) 1642

5. 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?
(a) Demagogue
(b) Synod
(c) Fascist
(d) Despotism

Short Answer Questions

1. When was John Cotton chosen as the teacher at the Boston church, shortly after his arrival in New England?

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. 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”?

4. What was the name of Anne Hutchinson’s brother-in-law that was a minister whom she admired?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was innovative and potentially controversial about the system of government established by Winthrop and his associates, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

2. Where did Roger Williams go when he left Plymouth? Where did he begin a church and start to gain power, according to the author in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?

3. What led up to the banishment of Reverend Wheelwright, according to the author in Chapter 10: “Seventeenth-Century Nihilism”?

4. Why did John Winthrop want to retire from government in 1640, according to the author in Chapter 12: “New England or Old”?

5. How did the Puritans perceive the relationship between church and state, according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?

6. What forced John Winthrop to reveal the stipulations of the charter to the colonists, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

7. What was the impact of the dispute between John Winthrop and the representatives regarding the stipulations of the charter, as seen in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

8. How was Winthrop’s system of elections established, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”? On what grounds was this system established?

9. When did Roger Williams come to New England? How was his arrival in the colony described in Chapter 9: “Separation Unleashed”?

10. What type of government did the Massachusetts Bay Company charter entitle the officers to establish for the colony, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?

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