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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 the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 6
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 2

2. Tattershall is described in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England” as the home of whom?
(a) Isaac Johnson
(b) Roger Williams
(c) John Haynes
(d) Nathaniel Ward

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) King Charles
(b) Queen Elizabeth
(c) King James
(d) Queen Mary

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

5. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?
(a) 1625
(b) 1588
(c) 1598
(d) 1632

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?

2. When was Mary Tudor born?

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

4. On what date did John Winthrop marry his second wife?

5. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?

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