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

2. How old was Henry Vane when he was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636?
(a) 23
(b) 19
(c) 32
(d) 36

3. 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”?
(a) March 10, 1629
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) July 16, 1630
(d) March 28, 1605

4. Where had Roger Williams studied divinity?
(a) St. Edwards
(b) Stourbridge
(c) Cambridge
(d) St. Thomas

5. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?

2. What term refers to a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application?

3. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

4. Thomas Dudley was angered that John Winthrop lent twenty-eight pounds of what to Plymouth colony without authorization, according to the author in Chapter 8: “Leniency Rebuked”?

5. What is the approximate distance between London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts?

(see the answer key)

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