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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. When was Mary Tudor born?
(a) 1498
(b) 1501
(c) 1516
(d) 1621

2. What does the author say “was responsible for suppressing heresy as well as drunkenness and theft and murder” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The crown
(b) The state
(c) The jury
(d) The church

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

4. 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) February 2, 1626
(b) July 16, 1630
(c) August 26, 1629
(d) March 27, 1625

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”?
(a) 1630
(b) 1623
(c) 1598
(d) 1616

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?

2. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

3. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that Winthrop soon discovered that the “misdirected zeal” of some of the colonists indicated “that he faced a far more difficult problem to control the good than” to do what?

4. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?

5. What term refers to a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application?

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