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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. 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 cloth merchant
(b) He was a surgeon
(c) He was a spice merchant
(d) He was a wheat farmer

2. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Connecticut
(b) Barbados
(c) Cape Sable
(d) New Hampshire

3. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?
(a) Trinity College, Cambridge
(b) Abingdon and Witney College
(c) Oxford College, London
(d) Aylesbury College

4. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?
(a) April 29, 1618
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) April 7, 1630
(d) March 27, 1625

5. 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) Roger Ludlow
(b) Nicholas Knopp
(c) Thomas Shepard
(d) William Bradford

Short Answer Questions

1. Roger Williams first arrived in the New World aboard what ship?

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

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

4. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?

5. What group amongst the New England Puritans “insisted that the bishops be replaced by another organization, with churches and clergy arranged in a pyramidal structure,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

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