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

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

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

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

5. When did James I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1567
(b) 1698
(c) 1625
(d) 1598

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?

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

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

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

5. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?

(see the answer key)

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