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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 many colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?
(a) 500
(b) 150
(c) 120
(d) 300
2. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?
(a) The Dorchester Company
(b) The Plymouth Company
(c) The St. James Charter Company
(d) The Massachusetts Bay Company
3. In order to secure the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, an agreement was finally worked out whereby the remaining resources of the company would be managed for seven years by "undertakers." How many of these undertakers would be established in Massachusetts?
(a) 6
(b) 7
(c) 3
(d) 5
4. On what date was Charles I crowned at Westminster Abbey?
(a) March 10, 1629
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) June 11, 1630
(d) July 28, 1629
5. What was the profession of Adam Winthrop prior to his purchase of the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) He was a cloth merchant
(b) He was a spice merchant
(c) He was a surgeon
(d) He was a wheat farmer
Short Answer Questions
1. The author says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the idea of going to the New World was not novel in Winthrop’s time. Englishman “had drifted back and forth between England and the wilderness across the water” for over how many years?
2. 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?
3. Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?
4. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?
5. 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?
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