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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. When did James I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1698
(b) 1598
(c) 1567
(d) 1625

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

3. When was Mary Tudor born?
(a) 1516
(b) 1621
(c) 1501
(d) 1498

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"?
(a) Isaac Johnson
(b) Thomas Fones
(c) William Laud
(d) Robert Ryece

5. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?
(a) Common attorney
(b) Butcher
(c) Chancery judge
(d) Wheat farmer

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did John Winthrop enroll to study law in 1613?

3. On what date did James I die?

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

5. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?

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