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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Way to a New England.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) 1599
(b) 1531
(c) 1544
(d) 1625

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

3. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?
(a) Queen Mary
(b) Queen Elizabeth
(c) King Charles
(d) King James

4. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 5

5. What was the name of the London apothecary that John Winthrop’s older sister Anne married?
(a) Thomas Fones
(b) Thomas Shepard
(c) John Endecott
(d) George Phillips

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the founding of colonies was notoriously what kind of activity?

2. On what date did James I die?

3. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?

4. On what date did John Winthrop write home to Margaret from London about the prospect of moving to New England, saying, “If the Lord seeth it wil be good for us, he will provide a shelter and a hidinge place for us and ours”?

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

(see the answer key)

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