Higher Level Multiple Choice Questions

Volume I

Chapter Two, A City Upon A Hill

1. What does Bennett refer to as the “American paradox?”

A. The fact that Virginia was founded on profit while Massachusetts was founded on faith.

B. The fact that better conditions for white servants in Virginia was only made possible by the introduction of African slavery.

C. The fact that settlers needed Indians like Squanto to teach them to survive in the wilderness.

D. The fact that Virginia did not prosper until women arrived in 1619.

2. How did the introduction of tobacco in Virginia most impact Native Americans?

A. Whites used tobacco as a trade item, leading to serious addiction among Indians.

B. It gave them an opportunity to profit because they produced most of the tobacco in the colony.

C. The craze to profit from the crop led white settlers to move inward and encroach upon Indian lands.

D. It led most to flee the coastal areas as white settlers attempted to enslave them.

3. Puritans in England held the following view of the Church of England:

A. It had strayed too far from the Catholic Church in Rome.

B. It was too simple in its rituals.

C. It was the “one true church” and they hoped to plant its beliefs in the New World.

D. Its hierarchy of bishops, archbishops and its control by the King led to its corruption.

4. The early days of Massachusetts had fewer examples of “starving times” than did early Virginia because:

A. The weather in Massachusetts was milder and food was more plentiful.

B. The cold in Massachusetts made settlers less susceptible to disease.

C. The settlers in Massachusetts worked harder at setting up a permanent settlement than did those in Virginia.

D. Virginia, unlike Massachusetts, suffered severe droughts during the colonial period.

5. What did John Winthrop mean when he referred to Massachusetts as a “City Upon a Hill?”

A. The colony should be a perfect example of a “Bible Commonwealth” for the people of England.

B. The government there under the Mayflower Compact would inspire England to become more democratic.

C. The Puritans would found a city that would be even greater than London.

D. The Puritans would build their settlement on high ground to avoid hurricanes and flooding.

6. The Stuart monarchs fell into disfavor among the Puritans especially for:

A. their claim of the Divine Right of Kings.

B. their insistence on supporting the Separatists.

C. their refusal to grant a charter to the Puritan colony in Massachusetts.

D. their refusal to prosecute people practicing witchcraft in England.

7. The English Civil War and the “Glorious Revolution” had impacts on both England and English people settling America. Both events:

A. made it clear that the Church of England would be dominant on both sides of the Atlantic.

B. led to a spread of the Enlightenment.

C. made clear that England was ruled by an absolute monarchy.

D. planted an ideology that refused to accept arbitrary power by a monarch.

8. The French had better relations with Native Americans than did the Spanish or the English because:

A. French settlers did not carry diseases that infected and killed Indians.

B. French colonists separated themselves completely from Indians, thus avoiding both contact and conflict.

C. there was fewer French settlers and they worked in partnership with the Indians in the fur trade.

D. the French King banned Catholic priests in the New World who might offend Indians by trying to change their religious beliefs.

9. The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals that had broader social significance in that it:

A. led people to leave their farms and move permanently to colonial cities.

B. was a mass social movement that challenged traditional authority.

C. led colonial governors to require all colonists to join the Church of England.

D. led to the Salem Witchcraft episode.

10. At the end of the French and Indian War, most English colonists in America:

A. were inflamed with hatred at how Britain had left them to fight the French in North America on their own.

B. considered themselves British and were proud to be a part of the greatest empire on earth.

C. saw the need to increase the presence of British troops in America to prevent another such war.

D. had concluded that it was time to seek independence from the British empire.