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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Evil and Declining Times.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop marry his second wife?
(a) April 29, 1618
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) December 6, 1615
(d) May 15, 1629

2. Of whom does the author say in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times,” “[T]heir defiance was also a desertion. They failed their fellow men. They abandoned a charity to which the Puritans held fast”?
(a) The Presbyterians
(b) The separatists
(c) The Calvinists
(d) The Congregationalists

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

4. Where did John Winthrop enroll to study law in 1613?
(a) Stafford College
(b) Uxbridge College
(c) Tameside College
(d) Gray’s Inn

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Charles I formally dissolve the English Parliament?

2. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?

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

4. What was the name of the London apothecary that John Winthrop’s older sister Anne married?

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

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