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

2. On what date did James I die?
(a) June 11, 1630
(b) March 27, 1625
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) April 7, 1630

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

4. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) Jackson Port
(b) Cape Sable
(c) Newburyport
(d) Humboldt Bay

5. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?
(a) The St. James Charter Company
(b) The Plymouth Company
(c) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(d) The Dorchester Company

Short Answer Questions

1. How many colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?

2. The charter granted to the New England Company in 1628 authorized the company to settle and govern the area from three miles south of the Charles River to what location?

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

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. How old was John Winthrop when he left for college?

(see the answer key)

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