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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?
(a) King James
(b) Queen Mary
(c) Queen Elizabeth
(d) King Charles

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”?
(a) Nicholas Knopp
(b) Nathaniel Ward
(c) George Phillips
(d) Roger Williams

3. 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?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) June 11, 1630
(d) April 29, 1618

4. How old was John Winthrop when he left for college?
(a) 16
(b) 17
(c) 18
(d) 15

5. How many men, women, and children were aboard the four ships of John Winthrop’s fleet that first arrived in the New World on the Massachusetts Bay Charter?
(a) 250
(b) 200
(c) 400
(d) 300

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?

2. 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?

3. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?

4. On what date was Charles I crowned at Westminster Abbey?

5. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?

(see the answer key)

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