The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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The Puritan Dilemma; the Story of John Winthrop Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Separation Unleashed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival,” it cost the better part of what amount of money “to come to New England properly equipped, even if one knew exactly what to bring and what not to bring”?
(a) 100 pounds
(b) 50 pounds
(c) 20 pounds
(d) 10 pounds

2. Who wrote to Winthrop in a letter, regarding the ordinances in the colony, that by treating temptation as a sin, it was making “more sins than (as yet is seene) God himself hath made,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) William Bradford
(b) Thomas Shepard
(c) Nicholas Knopp
(d) Roger Ludlow

3. In order to secure the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, an agreement was finally worked out whereby the remaining resources of the company would be managed for seven years by "undertakers." How many of these undertakers would be established in Massachusetts?
(a) 6
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 7

4. On what date did John Winthrop and several other prominent Puritans who were interested in emigrating assemble in Lincolnshire to talk it over, according to the author in the beginning of Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?
(a) July 16, 1630
(b) October 19, 1630
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) February 2, 1626

5. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?
(a) Queen Elizabeth I
(b) King Charles I
(c) King James I
(d) Queen Mary

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the previous Salem settlers had died in the preceding winter when John Winthrop arrived with his fleet, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

2. When was John Calvin born?

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. 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?

5. In 1629, Roger Williams was chaplain to whom in Essex?

(see the answer key)

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