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

2. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) William Laud
(b) Isaac Johnson
(c) George Abbott
(d) Thomas Fones

3. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?
(a) The St. James Charter Company
(b) The Plymouth Company
(c) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(d) The Dorchester Company

4. Of the plan developed for governing the proposed colony by the Massachusetts Bay Company, the author says in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England,” “The colony would not be a mere commercial enterprise, nor would it be simply a hiding place from the wrath of God. It would be instead” what?
(a) An idealized model of England but lacking of its corruption and authority
(b) A new start; a blank slate for democracy
(c) The citadel of God’s chosen people, a spearhead of world Protestantism
(d) The promise land of wealth, independence, and liberty

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?
(a) 1620
(b) 1615
(c) 1600
(d) 1629

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Mary Tudor born?

2. 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?

3. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?

4. When was John Calvin born?

5. Who is described as “one of the Puritans’ most illustrious preachers” and spoke before the House of Commons in the summer of 1625?

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