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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: The New England Way.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Anne Hutchinson go with her followers after she was exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
(a) Plymouth
(b) Connecticut
(c) Virginia
(d) New Hampshire

2. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?
(a) The Dorchester Company
(b) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(c) The Plymouth Company
(d) The St. James Charter Company

3. When did Mary Tudor die?
(a) 1498
(b) 1558
(c) 1660
(d) 1625

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”?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) August 26, 1629
(c) July 16, 1630
(d) March 27, 1625

5. On what date did John Winthrop marry his second wife?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) April 29, 1618
(c) December 6, 1615
(d) February 2, 1626

Short Answer Questions

1. What son of John Winthrop’s died by drowning just a few days after the arrival in the New World?

2. At the first meeting summoned by Winthrop in Charlestown, how many assistants were present, in addition to himself and Thomas Dudley?

3. 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?

4. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?

5. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

(see the answer key)

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