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

2. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) Groton Manor
(b) Tattershall
(c) Guilford Manor
(d) Epperson Manor

3. What were the three arrangements that John Winthrop had to oversee once he was voted as governor for the new colony and prior to departure from England?
(a) Ships, provisions, and passengers
(b) Livestock, housing, and furniture
(c) Trading routes, financial funds, and communication with the natives
(d) Ships, the establishment of the mint, and trade routes

4. The first church within the boundaries of Massachusetts Bay to be founded in the congregational manner was "gathered" on what date, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) December 6, 1615
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) March 28, 1605
(d) July 20, 1629

5. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1632
(b) 1601
(c) 1616
(d) 1624

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?

3. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?

4. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?

5. On what date did Charles I formally dissolve the English Parliament?

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