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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date was Charles I crowned at Westminster Abbey?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) June 11, 1630
(c) March 10, 1629
(d) July 28, 1629

2. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?
(a) 1588
(b) 1632
(c) 1598
(d) 1625

3. The Massachuset, Nauset, and Wampanoag people spoke using what subfamily of Native American languages?
(a) The Algonquian languages
(b) The Quechua languages
(c) The Tupi languages
(d) The Creole languages

4. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?
(a) Common attorney in His Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(b) Common attorney in the Parliamentary Court of Wards and Liveries
(c) Common attorney in Her Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(d) Common attorney in the People’s Court of Wards and Liveries

5. Who is said to have warned Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place,” saying "The pipe goeth sweete tyll the Byrde be in the nett, many bewtifull hopes are sett before your eyes to allewer you to danger"?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) Robert Ryece
(c) William Bradford
(d) Nathaniel Ward

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

2. The author says of Winthrop in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that he “did not aim at power for the sake of power, but he longed to” do what?

3. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?

4. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?

5. 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”?

(see the answer key)

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