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

2. What is the approximate distance between London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts?
(a) 2,000 miles
(b) 1,550 miles
(c) 4,230 miles
(d) 3,300 miles

3. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?
(a) Jacobus Arminius
(b) Elmore Arminian
(c) James Arminus
(d) Isaac Arminus

4. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?
(a) Charles I
(b) Elizabeth I
(c) James I
(d) Henry VIII

5. Where did John Winthrop enroll to study law in 1613?
(a) Gray’s Inn
(b) Uxbridge College
(c) Tameside College
(d) Stafford College

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is said to have warned Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place,” saying "The pipe goeth sweete tyll the Byrde be in the nett, many bewtifull hopes are sett before your eyes to allewer you to danger"?

2. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?

3. On what date did John Winthrop marry Margaret Tyndal?

4. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?

5. 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"?

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