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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) The Canary Islands
(c) South America
(d) Tropical Asia

2. On what date did John Winthrop marry his second wife?
(a) April 29, 1618
(b) December 6, 1615
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) February 2, 1626

3. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?
(a) Queen Mary
(b) King James I
(c) King Charles I
(d) Queen Elizabeth I

4. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?
(a) March 28, 1605
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) August 26, 1629
(d) April 29, 1618

5. 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) Queen Mary
(b) Queen Elizabeth
(c) King Charles
(d) King James

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place that in New England” that a group of separatists had been living at Plymouth since what year?

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

3. What was the profession of Adam Winthrop prior to his purchase of the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

4. On what date did John Winthrop marry Margaret Tyndal?

5. Upon arriving in the New World, John Winthrop’s shops sailed through the channel between Bakers Island and Little Island and cast anchor where, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

(see the answer key)

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