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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. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 2
(b) 7
(c) 6
(d) 5

2. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?
(a) Japan
(b) Barbados
(c) Africa
(d) France

3. 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

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

5. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1624
(b) 1601
(c) 1632
(d) 1616

Short Answer 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?

2. What does the author say “was responsible for suppressing heresy as well as drunkenness and theft and murder” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

3. How many colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?

4. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?

5. 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”?

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