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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. What was the profession of Adam Winthrop prior to his purchase of the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) He was a wheat farmer
(b) He was a cloth merchant
(c) He was a spice merchant
(d) He was a surgeon

2. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?
(a) 1659
(b) 1598
(c) 1629
(d) 1616

3. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?
(a) 16
(b) 19
(c) 17
(d) 20

4. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) Groton Manor
(b) Tattershall
(c) Guilford Manor
(d) Epperson Manor

5. How old was John Winthrop when he left for college?
(a) 18
(b) 15
(c) 16
(d) 17

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?

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

3. When did James I ascend the throne of England?

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

5. 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”?

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