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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: A Shelter and a Hiding Place.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the idea of going to the New World was not novel in Winthrop’s time. Englishman “had drifted back and forth between England and the wilderness across the water” for over how many years?
(a) 10
(b) 40
(c) 60
(d) 20

2. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1601
(b) 1616
(c) 1624
(d) 1632

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

4. 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 cloth merchant
(b) He was a surgeon
(c) He was a spice merchant
(d) He was a wheat farmer

5. The Massachuset, Nauset, and Wampanoag people spoke using what subfamily of Native American languages?
(a) The Algonquian languages
(b) The Quechua languages
(c) The Tupi languages
(d) The Creole languages

Short Answer Questions

1. What well-known Suffolk antiquary and friend of Winthrop told him of going to the New World, "The church and common welthe heere at home, hath more neede of your best abyllitie in these dangerous tymes, than any remote plantation"?

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 succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?

4. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?

5. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?

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