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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. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?
(a) The Lyon
(b) The Queen Mary
(c) The New World
(d) The Arbella

2. What was the profession of Adam Winthrop prior to his purchase of the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) He was a spice merchant
(b) He was a cloth merchant
(c) He was a wheat farmer
(d) He was a surgeon

3. How much money does the author assert a tent had cost in England for those few who had been able to bring one to the new world in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) 20 pounds
(b) 50 pounds
(c) 10 pounds
(d) 5 pounds

4. Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company when John Winthrop went to Cambridge to sign the agreement to be ready by the following March to Embark for New England?
(a) John Wilson
(b) John Haynes
(c) Matthew Cradock
(d) William Bradford

5. Upon arriving in the New World, John Winthrop’s shops sailed through the channel between Bakers Island and Little Island and cast anchor where, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Plum Cove
(b) Richards Cove
(c) Jamestown Cove
(d) Humboldt Bay

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop pen a letter to his wife Margaret that said, “Yet for all these thinges (I prayse my God) I am not discouraged, nor doe I see cause to repent, or dispaire of those good dayes heere, which will make amends for all”?

2. Regarding the use of alcohol, the Puritans imposed a self-denying ordinance that forbade what?

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

4. Who is said to have warned Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place,” saying "The pipe goeth sweete tyll the Byrde be in the nett, many bewtifull hopes are sett before your eyes to allewer you to danger"?

5. What minister that lived near Groton Manor and accompanied Winthrop to New England was so obsessed with the need for avoiding separatism that “he declared not only the churches of England but also those of Rome to be true churches”?

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