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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. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?
(a) Henry VIII
(b) Elizabeth I
(c) Charles I
(d) James I
2. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
(a) Elizabeth
(b) Sara
(c) Marie
(d) Lucy
3. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?
(a) Isaac Arminus
(b) Elmore Arminian
(c) Jacobus Arminius
(d) James Arminus
4. On what date did Charles I formally dissolve the English Parliament?
(a) March 1, 1642
(b) August 23, 1630
(c) March 10, 1629
(d) July 28, 1629
5. 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) July 28, 1629
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) June 11, 1630
Short Answer Questions
1. What minister is quoted in the book as having said of his apprehension of leaving England, “The Lord made me feare my affliction came in part for running too far in a way of separation from the mixt Assemblies in England: tho I blesse God I have ever beleeved that there are true churches in many parishes in England where the Lord sets up able men and ministers of his gospell; and I have abhorred to refuse to heare any able minister in England”?
2. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
3. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?
4. 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?
5. The charter granted to the New England Company in 1628 authorized the company to settle and govern the area from three miles south of the Charles River to what location?
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