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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) 1598
(c) 1616
(d) 1629

2. According to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival,” it cost the better part of what amount of money “to come to New England properly equipped, even if one knew exactly what to bring and what not to bring”?
(a) 50 pounds
(b) 10 pounds
(c) 20 pounds
(d) 100 pounds

3. 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) 5
(b) 7
(c) 2
(d) 6

4. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?
(a) April 7, 1630
(b) March 28, 1605
(c) August 26, 1629
(d) April 29, 1618

5. 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) Charlestown
(b) Newtown
(c) Cape Sable
(d) Mount Desert

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop write home to Margaret from London about the prospect of moving to New England, saying, “If the Lord seeth it wil be good for us, he will provide a shelter and a hidinge place for us and ours”?

2. Tattershall is described in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England” as the home of whom?

3. On what date did John Winthrop and several other prominent Puritans who were interested in emigrating assemble in Lincolnshire to talk it over, according to the author in the beginning of Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

4. What son of John Winthrop’s died by drowning just a few days after the arrival in the New World?

5. In what famous sermon by John Winthrop, delivered en route to Massachusetts, did he first apply the phrase “City upon a Hill” to the founding of America?

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