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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. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?
(a) Achieve faith and win salvation
(b) Deny grace
(c) Endorse one another’s salvation
(d) Respond to God’s will

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

3. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) William Laud
(b) George Abbott
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) Isaac Johnson

4. What was the name of the London apothecary that John Winthrop’s older sister Anne married?
(a) George Phillips
(b) John Endecott
(c) Thomas Shepard
(d) Thomas Fones

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?

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

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

5. When was John Calvin born?

(see the answer key)

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