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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 old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?
(a) 25
(b) 35
(c) 40
(d) 30

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

3. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) Newburyport
(b) Jackson Port
(c) Cape Sable
(d) Humboldt Bay

4. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Newtown
(b) Charlestown
(c) Cape Sable
(d) Mount Desert

5. 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) Roger Williams
(b) Nathaniel Ward
(c) Robert Ryece
(d) William Bradford

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?

3. When did James I ascend the throne of England?

4. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

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

(see the answer key)

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