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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) Samuel
(b) Paul
(c) William
(d) James

2. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) Thomas Fones
(b) William Laud
(c) Isaac Johnson
(d) George Abbott

3. 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”?
(a) July 16, 1630
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) March 27, 1625
(d) August 26, 1629

4. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?
(a) Butcher
(b) Common attorney
(c) Wheat farmer
(d) Chancery judge

5. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 6

Short Answer Questions

1. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?

2. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?

3. How many years before John Winthrop’s arrival in the New World had Samuel Maverick arrived with his bride and built a house?

4. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?

5. Since what year had there been a fairly substantial group of colonists at Cape Ann, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

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