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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?
(a) 1659
(b) 1616
(c) 1629
(d) 1598

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

3. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?
(a) 1565
(b) 1627
(c) 1701
(d) 1635

4. The narrator says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place that in New England” that a group of separatists had been living at Plymouth since what year?
(a) 1640
(b) 1620
(c) 1598
(d) 1515

5. The author says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the idea of going to the New World was not novel in Winthrop’s time. Englishman “had drifted back and forth between England and the wilderness across the water” for over how many years?
(a) 40
(b) 10
(c) 60
(d) 20

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

2. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?

3. 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?

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. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?

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