1. Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?
(a) John Humfrey, Isaac Johnson, and Sir Richard Saltonstall
(b) William Blackstone, Richard Clough, and Nicholas Knopp
(c) William Bradford, John Haynes, and John Cotton
(d) Roger Ludlow, John Wilson, and William Bradford

2. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) March 27, 1625
(c) April 7, 1630
(d) April 29, 1618

3. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1624
(b) 1616
(c) 1632
(d) 1601

4. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?
(a) Aylesbury College
(b) Abingdon and Witney College
(c) Oxford College, London
(d) Trinity College, Cambridge

5. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?
(a) The Plymouth Company
(b) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(c) The St. James Charter Company
(d) The Dorchester Company

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does the author say in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times,” “[T]heir defiance was also a desertion. They failed their fellow men. They abandoned a charity to which the Puritans held fast”?

2. When was John Calvin born?

3. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?

4. On what date did John Winthrop marry Margaret Tyndal?

5. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?

(see the answer key)

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