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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. The narrator says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place that in New England” that a group of separatists had been living at Plymouth since what year?
(a) 1640
(b) 1515
(c) 1620
(d) 1598

2. 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) Tattershall
(c) Groton Manor
(d) Guilford Manor

3. 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

4. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?
(a) The Queen Mary
(b) The Arbella
(c) The Lyon
(d) The New World

5. What minister that lived near Groton Manor and accompanied Winthrop to New England was so obsessed with the need for avoiding separatism that “he declared not only the churches of England but also those of Rome to be true churches”?
(a) Nicholas Knopp
(b) George Phillips
(c) Roger Williams
(d) Nathaniel Ward

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to secure the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, an agreement was finally worked out whereby the remaining resources of the company would be managed for seven years by "undertakers." How many of these undertakers would be established in Massachusetts?

2. 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”?

3. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?

4. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?

5. What is the approximate distance between London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts?

(see the answer key)

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