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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Survival.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is said to have warned Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place,” saying "The pipe goeth sweete tyll the Byrde be in the nett, many bewtifull hopes are sett before your eyes to allewer you to danger"?
(a) Robert Ryece
(b) Roger Williams
(c) Nathaniel Ward
(d) William Bradford

2. How much money does the author assert a tent had cost in England for those few who had been able to bring one to the new world in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) 5 pounds
(b) 10 pounds
(c) 20 pounds
(d) 50 pounds

3. On what date did John Winthrop marry Margaret Tyndal?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) April 29, 1618
(c) April 7, 1630
(d) May 15, 1629

4. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?
(a) Queen Elizabeth I
(b) King James I
(c) King Charles I
(d) Queen Mary

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?

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

3. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

4. Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company when John Winthrop went to Cambridge to sign the agreement to be ready by the following March to Embark for New England?

5. How many years before John Winthrop’s arrival in the New World had Samuel Maverick arrived with his bride and built a house?

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