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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 King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1632
(b) 1601
(c) 1616
(d) 1624

2. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?
(a) Oxford College, London
(b) Trinity College, Cambridge
(c) Aylesbury College
(d) Abingdon and Witney College

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?

3. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?

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

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