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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. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) 1544
(b) 1531
(c) 1625
(d) 1599

2. When did Mary Tudor die?
(a) 1660
(b) 1558
(c) 1625
(d) 1498

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

4. On what date did Charles I formally dissolve the English Parliament?
(a) March 1, 1642
(b) March 10, 1629
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) August 23, 1630

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?

3. 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”?

4. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?

5. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?

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