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

2. John Winthrop, Jr. considered going to New England with Endecott’s group but instead went on a fourteen-month tour of what region, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) South America
(b) The Mediterranean
(c) The Canary Islands
(d) Tropical Asia

3. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?
(a) He married a Jew
(b) He married a Presbyterian
(c) He married a Roman Catholic
(d) He married a Calvinist

4. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?
(a) Queen Mary
(b) King Charles
(c) King James
(d) Queen Elizabeth

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?

4. 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"?

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

(see the answer key)

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