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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Jamestown Cove
(b) Plum Cove
(c) Richards Cove
(d) Humboldt Bay

2. According to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival,” it cost the better part of what amount of money “to come to New England properly equipped, even if one knew exactly what to bring and what not to bring”?
(a) 100 pounds
(b) 50 pounds
(c) 20 pounds
(d) 10 pounds

3. Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company when John Winthrop went to Cambridge to sign the agreement to be ready by the following March to Embark for New England?
(a) William Bradford
(b) Matthew Cradock
(c) John Haynes
(d) John Wilson

4. What was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) William
(b) Paul
(c) James
(d) Samuel

5. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) Epperson Manor
(b) Guilford Manor
(c) Groton Manor
(d) Tattershall

Short Answer Questions

1. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?

2. How old was John Winthrop when he left for college?

3. What term refers to a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application?

4. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?

5. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the early Puritan establishment of churches in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

2. What various problems did John Winthrop address as leader of the colonists after their arrival, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

3. How does the author describe John Winthrop’s education in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”? When did John Winthrop leave school and marry?

4. How does the author describe the Puritans’ perception of sin and the punishment of sin in the New World in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

5. When and where was John Winthrop born? What important event took place in the year Winthrop was born, according to the author in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”?

6. How does the author explain the relationship between Puritanism and government in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”?

7. How does the author describe the groups called the Presbyterians and the Congregationalists in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

8. How does the author describe the beliefs of Charles I in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”? How is Arminianism described?

9. How does the author describe the popular perception of colonization of the New World during the 1620s in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

10. What controversies and disputes did John Winthrop have to oversee before the company’s departure, according to the author in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

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