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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. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?
(a) April 7, 1630
(b) April 29, 1618
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) March 27, 1625

2. When did Mary Tudor die?
(a) 1558
(b) 1625
(c) 1660
(d) 1498

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

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

5. Who is described as “one of the Puritans’ most illustrious preachers” and spoke before the House of Commons in the summer of 1625?
(a) Reverend John Endecott
(b) Reverend Thomas Shepard
(c) Reverend George Phillips
(d) Reverend John Preston

Short Answer Questions

1. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?

2. Where did John Winthrop enroll to study law in 1613?

3. Of the plan developed for governing the proposed colony by the Massachusetts Bay Company, the author says in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England,” “The colony would not be a mere commercial enterprise, nor would it be simply a hiding place from the wrath of God. It would be instead” what?

4. Winthrop warned his constituents in the New World that “when God gives a special Commission, He looks to have” what in return?

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?

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