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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. What were the three arrangements that John Winthrop had to oversee once he was voted as governor for the new colony and prior to departure from England?
(a) Trading routes, financial funds, and communication with the natives
(b) Ships, the establishment of the mint, and trade routes
(c) Livestock, housing, and furniture
(d) Ships, provisions, and passengers
2. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?
(a) Queen Elizabeth I
(b) King James I
(c) King Charles I
(d) Queen Mary
3. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?
(a) James I
(b) Elizabeth I
(c) Charles I
(d) Henry VIII
4. Who is described as “one of the Puritans’ most illustrious preachers” and spoke before the House of Commons in the summer of 1625?
(a) Reverend John Preston
(b) Reverend Thomas Shepard
(c) Reverend John Endecott
(d) Reverend George Phillips
5. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?
(a) Common attorney in His Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(b) Common attorney in the Parliamentary Court of Wards and Liveries
(c) Common attorney in Her Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(d) Common attorney in the People’s Court of Wards and Liveries
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
2. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?
3. 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?
4. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
5. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?
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