Quiz  /  Massachusetts Bay Colony Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which was the first permanent settlement by Europeans in New England?

  • Jamestown
  • Roanoke
  • Providence
  • Plymouth

  • 2. 
    What religious sect settled Massachusetts Bay in hopes of creating a reformed version of the Church of England?

  • Quakers
  • Puritans
  • Pilgrims
  • Anglicans

  • 3. 
    What religious concept was the Puritan belief in salvation founded on?

  • fatalism
  • predestination
  • divine right of kings
  • determinism

  • 4. 
    Which Massachusetts Bay Colony leader called upon colonists to join each other and God in a covenant to build “a Citty [sic] upon a Hill” to be witnessed by “the eyes of all people”?

  • Thomas Dudley
  • John Winthrop
  • John Cotton
  • John Calvin

  • 5. 
    Which Massachusetts Bay Colony resident was a poet whose work was published in England without her knowledge?

  • Anne Hutchinson
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Jane Cavendish
  • Elizabeth Carter

  • 6. 
    Who immigrated to escape the Church of England’s persecution for his nonconformism and became one of the most influential ministers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

  • John Harvard
  • Anne Hutchinson
  • John Winthrop
  • John Cotton

  • 7. 
    What colonist was banned from the Bay Colony for “dangerous views,” including the beliefs that the only just way to gain title to land was to purchase it from Native Americans and that the magistrates had no right to interfere in matters of religion?

  • John Harvard
  • Roger Williams
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Simon Bradstreet

  • 8. 
    Who was excommunicated from the Boston church for saying that individual intuition—rather than the observance of institutionalized beliefs and the dictates of ministers—was the path to reaching God and attaining salvation?

  • Mary Dyer
  • Mary Chilton
  • Mary Rowlandson
  • Anne Hutchinson
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