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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. Who had been governing the colony under instruction from the company in England before Winthrop and the others arrived, according to the author in Chapter 7: “A Due Form of Government”?
(a) Roger Ludlow
(b) John Haynes
(c) William Bradford
(d) John Endecott

2. Who is quoted in Chapter 11: “The New England Way” as having said “if the people be governors, who shall be governed?”
(a) John Cotton
(b) Thomas Shepard
(c) George Phillips
(d) Henry Winthrop

3. On what date did John Winthrop’s ships pass the Isles of Shoals, where a ship lay at anchor, upon arriving in the New World?
(a) June 11, 1630
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) February 2, 1626

4. Who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?
(a) Thomas Dudley
(b) Nathaniel Ward
(c) Roger Williams
(d) William Bradford

5. What pastor in Watertown and Winthrop's neighbor back in England caused problems by teaching that the Roman Catholic Church was a legitimate body of Christians?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend William Blackstone
(c) Reverend John Wilson
(d) Reverend John Wheelwright

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop marry his second wife?

2. When did James I ascend the throne of England?

3. John Winthrop, Jr. considered going to New England with Endecott’s group but instead went on a fourteen-month tour of what region, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

4. On what date did John Winthrop marry Margaret Tyndal?

5. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that Winthrop soon discovered that the “misdirected zeal” of some of the colonists indicated “that he faced a far more difficult problem to control the good than” to do what?

(see the answer key)

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