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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Winthrop, Jr. considered going to New England with Endecott’s group but instead went on a fourteen-month tour of what region, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) The Mediterranean
(b) Tropical Asia
(c) South America
(d) The Canary Islands

2. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?
(a) 16
(b) 19
(c) 17
(d) 20

3. Of the plan developed for governing the proposed colony by the Massachusetts Bay Company, the author says in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England,” “The colony would not be a mere commercial enterprise, nor would it be simply a hiding place from the wrath of God. It would be instead” what?
(a) The citadel of God’s chosen people, a spearhead of world Protestantism
(b) The promise land of wealth, independence, and liberty
(c) An idealized model of England but lacking of its corruption and authority
(d) A new start; a blank slate for democracy

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

5. On what date did James I die?
(a) June 11, 1630
(b) April 29, 1618
(c) April 7, 1630
(d) March 27, 1625

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When did Mary Tudor die?

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

4. How many colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?

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

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