Roger Williams was a dissenter from an early age, having rebelled against his own father as a young boy to follow the path of the Puritans. He studied at Cambridge and became a cleric, but was notable even as a young chaplain for his strong belief in freedom of worship. After a year or two of butting his head against the strict High Church administration, Williams took his wife, Mary, and departed for Boston, arriving in 1631. Even in this new world, his radical ideas about the separation of church and state and the seizure of native land almost led to his deportation, and in 1636 he established his own colony, Providence Plantation, with a few like-minded followers.

1. The passage indicates that Roger Williams ran into resistance in Boston due to which of the following?

A. His views about the separation of church and state
B. His opposition to the takeover of land belonging to the tribes
C. His adamant and radical belief in freedom of worship



Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea of the passage?

A. After failing as a cleric in England and then in Boston, Roger Williams left the church and struck out on his own with a small band of followers.
B. Roger Williams left England with a small band of followers, intent on establishing his own colony and worshipping freely.
C. Roger Williams’s resistance to authority and the status quo caused him to challenge everyone from his own father to leaders in the New World.
D. The Puritan path was no longer enough for young Roger Williams, and he set off for Boston to establish his own church there.
E. Sensing that he was never going to succeed in the High Church, Roger Williams departed for Boston, where he seized native land to build his own colony.



Which sentence indicates that Williams’s strong beliefs caused trouble for him in England.