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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. On what date did John Winthrop write home to Margaret from London about the prospect of moving to New England, saying, “If the Lord seeth it wil be good for us, he will provide a shelter and a hidinge place for us and ours”?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) October 19, 1630
(c) August 23, 1630
(d) February 2, 1626

2. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) William Laud
(b) Isaac Johnson
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) George Abbott

3. 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?
(a) Separate the colony from control of the King
(b) Found a religious Eden
(c) Use his talents for the creation of wealth
(d) Use his talents in the cause of God

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

5. 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”?
(a) 1616
(b) 1623
(c) 1598
(d) 1630

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When was Mary Tudor born?

4. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?

5. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

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