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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. 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 the Parliamentary Court of Wards and Liveries
(b) Common attorney in Her Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(c) Common attorney in His Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(d) Common attorney in the People’s Court of Wards and Liveries

2. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
(a) Marie
(b) Elizabeth
(c) Sara
(d) Lucy

3. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?
(a) 30
(b) 35
(c) 40
(d) 25

4. When was Mary Tudor born?
(a) 1501
(b) 1621
(c) 1516
(d) 1498

5. What well-known Suffolk antiquary and friend of Winthrop told him of going to the New World, "The church and common welthe heere at home, hath more neede of your best abyllitie in these dangerous tymes, than any remote plantation"?
(a) William Laud
(b) Robert Ryece
(c) Isaac Johnson
(d) Thomas Fones

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?

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

3. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?

4. 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?

5. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?

(see the answer key)

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