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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: The New England Way.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Richard Bellingham first elected as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) 1642
(b) 1631
(c) 1633
(d) 1641

2. The author asserts in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the founding of colonies was notoriously what kind of activity?
(a) An economically profitable activity
(b) A religious activity
(c) A separatist activity
(d) An unprofitable activity

3. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) Roger Williams
(c) William Bradford
(d) Thomas Dudley

4. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop had allowed the people of Watertown to build a weir where, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?
(a) On the Charles River
(b) On the Hudson River
(c) On the Merrimack River
(d) On the Mississippi River

5. 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?
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. When was John Calvin born?

2. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?

3. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?

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

5. Upon arriving in the New World, John Winthrop’s shops sailed through the channel between Bakers Island and Little Island and cast anchor where, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

(see the answer key)

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