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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Survival.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Winthrop, Jr. considered going to New England with Endecott’s group but instead went on a fourteen-month tour of what region, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) The Canary Islands
(b) South America
(c) The Mediterranean
(d) Tropical Asia

2. The first glimpse that the Puritans aboard John Winthrop’s ships got of New England was the hills of what Maine town, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Mount Desert
(b) Portland
(c) Chestershire
(d) Marymount

3. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Cape Sable
(b) New Hampshire
(c) Barbados
(d) Connecticut

4. How many colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?
(a) 300
(b) 150
(c) 500
(d) 120

5. Who is said to have warned Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place,” saying "The pipe goeth sweete tyll the Byrde be in the nett, many bewtifull hopes are sett before your eyes to allewer you to danger"?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) Robert Ryece
(c) Nathaniel Ward
(d) William Bradford

Short Answer Questions

1. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?

2. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?

3. When was Mary Tudor born?

4. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?

5. On what date did John Winthrop and several other prominent Puritans who were interested in emigrating assemble in Lincolnshire to talk it over, according to the author in the beginning of Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

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