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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: A Special Commission.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?
(a) Oxford College, London
(b) Trinity College, Cambridge
(c) Abingdon and Witney College
(d) Aylesbury College

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

4. What group amongst the New England Puritans “insisted that the bishops be replaced by another organization, with churches and clergy arranged in a pyramidal structure,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The royalists
(b) The Presbyterians
(c) The Congregationalists
(d) The Calvinists

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?
(a) 1659
(b) 1629
(c) 1598
(d) 1616

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?

4. 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”?

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"?

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