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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 asserts in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the founding of colonies was notoriously what kind of activity?
(a) An economically profitable activity
(b) A separatist activity
(c) A religious activity
(d) An unprofitable activity

2. Of whom does the author say in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times,” “[T]heir defiance was also a desertion. They failed their fellow men. They abandoned a charity to which the Puritans held fast”?
(a) The separatists
(b) The Calvinists
(c) The Congregationalists
(d) The Presbyterians

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

4. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?
(a) 1588
(b) 1625
(c) 1632
(d) 1598

5. What was the name of the London apothecary that John Winthrop’s older sister Anne married?
(a) Thomas Fones
(b) Thomas Shepard
(c) George Phillips
(d) John Endecott

Short Answer Questions

1. Since what year had there been a fairly substantial group of colonists at Cape Ann, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

2. The author says of Winthrop in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that he “did not aim at power for the sake of power, but he longed to” do what?

3. On what date was Charles I crowned at Westminster Abbey?

4. On what date did Charles I formally dissolve the English Parliament?

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?

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