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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Survival.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many men, women, and children were aboard the four ships of John Winthrop’s fleet that first arrived in the New World on the Massachusetts Bay Charter?
(a) 400
(b) 200
(c) 300
(d) 250
2. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?
(a) August 26, 1629
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) March 28, 1605
(d) April 29, 1618
3. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?
(a) Common attorney in Her Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(b) Common attorney in the Parliamentary Court of Wards and Liveries
(c) Common attorney in the People’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(d) Common attorney in His Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
4. How many years before John Winthrop’s arrival in the New World had Samuel Maverick arrived with his bride and built a house?
(a) 10 years before
(b) 3 years before
(c) 6 years before
(d) 1 year before
5. On what date did John Winthrop pen a letter to his wife Margaret that said, “Yet for all these thinges (I prayse my God) I am not discouraged, nor doe I see cause to repent, or dispaire of those good dayes heere, which will make amends for all”?
(a) March 10, 1629
(b) July 16, 1630
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) March 28, 1605
Short Answer Questions
1. The charter granted to the New England Company in 1628 authorized the company to settle and govern the area from three miles south of the Charles River to what location?
2. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
3. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?
4. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?
5. What were the three arrangements that John Winthrop had to oversee once he was voted as governor for the new colony and prior to departure from England?
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