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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: A Shelter and a Hiding Place.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?
(a) Deny grace
(b) Endorse one another’s salvation
(c) Achieve faith and win salvation
(d) Respond to God’s will

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

3. When did James I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1625
(b) 1567
(c) 1698
(d) 1598

4. The author says of Winthrop in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that he “did not aim at power for the sake of power, but he longed to” do what?
(a) Use his talents for the creation of wealth
(b) Found a religious Eden
(c) Separate the colony from control of the King
(d) Use his talents in the cause of God

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?
(a) 1565
(b) 1635
(c) 1701
(d) 1627

Short Answer Questions

1. The Massachuset, Nauset, and Wampanoag people spoke using what subfamily of Native American languages?

2. The charter granted to the New England Company in 1628 authorized the company to settle and govern the area from three miles south of the Charles River to what location?

3. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?

4. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

5. The author says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the idea of going to the New World was not novel in Winthrop’s time. Englishman “had drifted back and forth between England and the wilderness across the water” for over how many years?

(see the answer key)

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