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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 his first wife?
(a) 20
(b) 16
(c) 19
(d) 17

2. On what date did John Winthrop marry his second wife?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) December 6, 1615
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) April 29, 1618

3. What minister that lived near Groton Manor and accompanied Winthrop to New England was so obsessed with the need for avoiding separatism that “he declared not only the churches of England but also those of Rome to be true churches”?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) George Phillips
(c) Nathaniel Ward
(d) Nicholas Knopp

4. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
(a) Lucy
(b) Marie
(c) Sara
(d) Elizabeth

5. Since what year had there been a fairly substantial group of colonists at Cape Ann, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) 1616
(b) 1630
(c) 1623
(d) 1598

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the previous Salem settlers had died in the preceding winter when John Winthrop arrived with his fleet, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

2. 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"?

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

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”?

5. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?

(see the answer key)

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