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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Regarding the use of alcohol, the Puritans imposed a self-denying ordinance that forbade what?
(a) The partaking of wine outside of church
(b) Drinking toasts to one another
(c) The consumption of any type of alcohol
(d) The partaking of hard liquors

2. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 2

3. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) October 20, 1629
(d) July 28, 1629

4. Upon arriving in the New World, John Winthrop’s shops sailed through the channel between Bakers Island and Little Island and cast anchor where, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Plum Cove
(b) Humboldt Bay
(c) Jamestown Cove
(d) Richards Cove

5. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that by 1635, “a dozen churches were scattered round the bay from Hingham to” where?
(a) Medford
(b) Newbury
(c) Salem
(d) Plum Cove

6. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) Thomas Fones
(b) Isaac Johnson
(c) William Laud
(d) George Abbott

7. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Cape Sable
(b) Charlestown
(c) Mount Desert
(d) Newtown

8. In what famous sermon by John Winthrop, delivered en route to Massachusetts, did he first apply the phrase “City upon a Hill” to the founding of America?
(a) A Model of Christian Charity
(b) On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry
(c) Peak of Eloquence
(d) Approbate Consuetudinis

9. 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”?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) July 16, 1630
(c) October 19, 1630
(d) February 2, 1626

10. How much money does the author assert a tent had cost in England for those few who had been able to bring one to the new world in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) 5 pounds
(b) 20 pounds
(c) 10 pounds
(d) 50 pounds

11. 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?
(a) 10
(b) 60
(c) 20
(d) 40

12. Since what year had there been a fairly substantial group of colonists at Cape Ann, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) 1630
(b) 1616
(c) 1598
(d) 1623

13. How old was John Winthrop when he left for college?
(a) 17
(b) 15
(c) 18
(d) 16

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Mary Tudor born?

2. What did the Puritans believe “was the mother of heresy,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

3. 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?

4. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?

5. What son of John Winthrop’s died by drowning just a few days after the arrival in the New World?

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