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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. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) Newburyport
(b) Jackson Port
(c) Cape Sable
(d) Humboldt Bay

2. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?
(a) Henry VIII
(b) Elizabeth I
(c) James I
(d) Charles I

3. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?
(a) Common attorney
(b) Butcher
(c) Chancery judge
(d) Wheat farmer

4. When was John Calvin born?
(a) 1509
(b) 1559
(c) 1598
(d) 1665

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?
(a) 1635
(b) 1565
(c) 1701
(d) 1627

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?

2. 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?

3. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

4. 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?

5. On what date did John Winthrop and several other prominent Puritans who were interested in emigrating assemble in Lincolnshire to talk it over, according to the author in the beginning of Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

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