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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 the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 6
(b) 2
(c) 5
(d) 7

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

3. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Cape Sable
(b) Barbados
(c) Connecticut
(d) New Hampshire

4. On what date did John Winthrop’s ships pass the Isles of Shoals, where a ship lay at anchor, upon arriving in the New World?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) June 11, 1630

5. On what date did Charles I formally dissolve the English Parliament?
(a) August 23, 1630
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) March 1, 1642
(d) March 10, 1629

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Mary Tudor die?

2. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?

3. What was the name of the London apothecary that John Winthrop’s older sister Anne married?

4. 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?

5. The Massachuset, Nauset, and Wampanoag people spoke using what subfamily of Native American languages?

(see the answer key)

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