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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. 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?
(a) 300
(b) 250
(c) 400
(d) 200

2. What was Cambridge, Massachusetts called during the first winter when the colonists decided to build their houses there in 1630?
(a) Salem
(b) Newtown
(c) Medford
(d) Boston

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) 5 pounds
(b) 20 pounds
(c) 50 pounds
(d) 10 pounds

4. Roger Williams first arrived in the New World aboard what ship?
(a) The Lyon
(b) The Holy Royal
(c) The St. Mary
(d) The Arbella

5. The Massachuset, Nauset, and Wampanoag people spoke using what subfamily of Native American languages?
(a) The Algonquian languages
(b) The Creole languages
(c) The Quechua languages
(d) The Tupi languages

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?

2. When was Mary Tudor born?

3. On what date was Charles I crowned at Westminster Abbey?

4. Thomas Dudley had been whose steward in England?

5. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?

(see the answer key)

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