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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. 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) 400
(c) 300
(d) 200

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

3. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?
(a) 1625
(b) 1632
(c) 1598
(d) 1588

4. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Barbados
(b) Connecticut
(c) New Hampshire
(d) Cape Sable

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?
(a) 1565
(b) 1635
(c) 1701
(d) 1627

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. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?

3. 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?

4. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?

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

(see the answer key)

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