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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) Paul
(b) William
(c) James
(d) Samuel

2. What son of John Winthrop’s died by drowning just a few days after the arrival in the New World?
(a) Henry Winthrop
(b) Peter Winthrop
(c) James Winthrop
(d) John Winthrop, Jr

3. 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?
(a) Ships, the establishment of the mint, and trade routes
(b) Livestock, housing, and furniture
(c) Ships, provisions, and passengers
(d) Trading routes, financial funds, and communication with the natives

4. What minister is quoted in the book as having said of his apprehension of leaving England, “The Lord made me feare my affliction came in part for running too far in a way of separation from the mixt Assemblies in England: tho I blesse God I have ever beleeved that there are true churches in many parishes in England where the Lord sets up able men and ministers of his gospell; and I have abhorred to refuse to heare any able minister in England”?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) Thomas Shepard
(c) Nicholas Knopp
(d) Nathaniel Ward

5. On what date did John Winthrop marry Margaret Tyndal?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) April 7, 1630

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?

2. 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”?

3. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?

4. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?

5. On what date did James I die?

(see the answer key)

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